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by m3kw9 2909 days ago
Don’t matter if you say pretty please, if it aligns with their business they will do it. They’ve probably thought of this move already.
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sdesol 2909 days ago
There is no way I can see them open sourcing GitHub. If you have studied the history of versioning control systems (ClearCear, Perforce, TFS, Subversion, etc.) you would know how insanely powerful controlling the hosting solution is. I can see Microsoft making private repos for free and/or making GitHub Enterprise free for the first 10 users though.
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freedomben 2909 days ago
It's definitely powerful, but I don't think the power of github is in the actual product. Gitlab is much better in some important ways (IMHO of course), but it's still not seen much adoption. The power of Github is in the community and the fact that it's the defacto standard place to look for code. That would likely only increase if MS open sourced the code.
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jen729w 2909 days ago
Which one would argue is exactly what they should and must do, given the money they paid for it.
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