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Sensationalist title > “I wouldn’t have minded buying them, but it’s OK,” Greene said at a Fortune Magazine event in San Francisco on Wednesday.

• malvosenior 8y ago
  The whole article is really weird. It has the quote about it being "OK" that MS bought Github, followed by a non-sequitur article about Google employees protesting military contracts. I don't see a connection between the two but I suppose the author is implying that Google didn't buy Github because it was distracted with its own internal turmoil around the protests?
  • stingraycharles 8y ago
    I agree, this is a very weird article with very little information, and the headline oversells it.
    • ChuckMcM 8y ago
      Perhaps the only story here is that Google would have (or may have) bid on Github as well as Microsoft. But that isn't more than a headline so the the editor said "It needs to be 500 words or it isn't a story" and the reporter just added in bits until they hit the word threshold.
  • ggggtez 8y ago
    If that's the implication it's pretty much just crazy talk. I mean, is the suggestion the company actually stopped all work for a period of months? Obviously not, so it seems like a huge non-sequitur.
• Nuzzerino 8y ago
  You can pretty much expect clickbait bordering on fake news from Bloomberg these days. There has been a pattern of it.