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Good to hear. Still, I have these memories of Facebook buying Whatsapp for too much money and first saying it will be impossible to integrate both platforms. Su
by Gys 8y ago
Good to hear. Still, I have these memories of Facebook buying Whatsapp for too much money and first saying it will be impossible to integrate both platforms. Surprise, surprise, later they did find a way to integrate.
Microsoft paying 7.5B for something that looses money every year ? And not having any problems with that ? What will the shareholders say ?
- gkoberger 8y agoWell, I think that's the point. They want to monetize the enterprise edition better. Combining GitHub's product with Microsoft's cabal of credit-card-ready existing purchasers. Microsoft has built a community of developers that expect to pay for dev tools, which is rare. So, they can have the existing product operate as-is, and Microsoft can make money by moving their legacy high-paying consumers to something better.
- oculusthrift 8y agothe stock price just went over 100. i think the shareholders are fine
- Gys 8y agoThe shareholders see potential. I also think there are many ways for Microsoft to make money from Github. But that means changes the general Github user will not like (ads ? higher fees ? tracking ? killing atom ?). My point is that the 'Hello, Github' implies nothing will change.