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by soperj 2471 days ago
You realize they're owned by Microsoft yes?
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That's counting on Microsoft taking good care of GitHub and maintaining its goodwill.

It might or might not be well managed in the years to come. Case in point, Skype. It was "the" tool to use for office communication. Hardly anyone I know uses Skype nowadays.

Skype is still pretty big in the enterprise chat space.
Sadly yes, because big businesses with insufficient concern for maintaining openness on the internet keep choosing siloed proprietary communication services, just because they're "more polished".

cough Mozilla cough Slack cough