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by pixxel 2195 days ago
They paid $7.5B to delete code repositories? What about all the other non github repository hosts, not forgetting self-hosted, torrents etc.
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> They paid $7.5B to delete code repositories?

As the article shows, yes.

> What about all the other non github repository hosts, not forgetting self-hosted, torrents etc.

They are harder to find and can be closed without difficulty, unlike a github repo

What makes you think pre-aquisition Github wouldn't have taken this down?