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Depends. MS used to have its own code hosting service (Codeplex I believe), and it wasn't that bad, but Github was more "social". I think it's mostly a questio

Depends. MS used to have its own code hosting service (Codeplex I believe), and it wasn't that bad, but Github was more "social". I think it's mostly a question of how independent Github will be under MS. Now to be fair, MS has good services. Azure is nice, and office 365 is pretty good.

syrrim 6y ago
They might make money off if it, but I believe GP was referring to github's prominence as the home of so many free software projects.