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by treyd 873 days ago
It's approximately 0. Microsoft knew that GitHub had no moat being what it was when they acquired it. T hat's why they've been adding CI, Pages, Codespaces, Copilot, and a bunch of other crap that only some of which people actually asked for in order to raise switching costs. That would go against everything they've been doing the last couple years.
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Pages predates Microsoft's acquisition, and I can use Copilot on the repos I commit to any other source control system.
> Microsoft knew that GitHub had no moat

GitHub had the best moat: network.

But yes, the additions have only deepened it.