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> Conflate a generic concept (Git in this case) with Microsoft's specific implementation (Github)

Github has been intentionally conflating git with github for their own gain since way before Microsoft ever conceived of the notion of buying them.

A year or so before the acquisition, one of my Microsoft coworkers asked if I'd gotten approval to post our internal code on github. What I had actually done was put some of our testing code which was, for all intents and purposes, not under version control, into a git repo hosted by an internal platform.