Survey Results: Perspective of Microsoft's Acquisition of GitHub

The results of the survey show that most of the participants have negative opinions about Microsoft’s acquisition of GitHub. In addition, participants think the acquisition will be detrimental to any projects that they contribute toward and participants do not agree to the acquisition will trigger even more expansion of Free/Libre and Open Source contributors in GitHub ,but this acquisition will bring improvements in the reliability and services of GitHub platform.

In detail, Figure 2-1, 55.2% of 241 participants think the acquisition will be detrimental to any projects that they contribute toward. According to Figure 2-2, 74.3% of participants do not agree to the acquisition will trigger even more expansion of Free/Libre and Open Source contributors in GitHub. Figure 2-3 shows 55.2% of participants do not agree with this acquisition will bring improvements in the reliability and services of GitHub platform.