Many course use GitHub as a part of their submission process. NC State connects a Jenkins server for their automated feedback to students. This would assist by reducing the number of platforms students need to use while learning CS.
Not when you consider how oddly ubiquitous Office was in classrooms (though it may now be seeing competition from Google?). It’s a brilliant sales strategy. Get paid now for professional training of your software, then get paid again when the kid enters the workforce and expects their company to have the software.
My thoughts exactly. While they are busy embracing Linux, they should look into adopting its mindset of having one program (web-app?) do one thing well, and only one thing. It would be a shame if the base github.com got bloated.