> Yeah, they could have resurrected it, but Microsoft had less to lose by destroying Nokia than it does by destroying Github. I'm not sure that's true, since M

> Yeah, they could have resurrected it, but Microsoft had less to lose by destroying Nokia than it does by destroying Github. I'm not sure that's true, since MS has already lost the developer space. Nokia was a play for revenue because MS's investment in Windows phone was in the billions already when MS bought Nokia, and that was back when people still actually liked Windows Phone. It's possible that MS could have built a github clone, and that wouldn't have cost them $7.5B to build, but what MS really bought here is the brand, and the good will that comes with it. If github goes down the tubes, it will be like hotmail / nokia... etc.