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A commercial proprietary platform that came around at the right time to cash in on the open source movement, and was then acquired by Microsoft for $7.5 billi
by ThinkBeat 2y ago
A commercial proprietary platform that came around at the right time
to cash in on the open source movement, and was then acquired by
Microsoft for $7.5 billion¹ in 2019.
Becoming a jewel for (one of) the worlds most profitable proprietary software and platform company.
And GitHub is still super popular, evolving more and more into a social network.
where the users work for free to increase the value of platform and promote it
for the chance at more GitHub stars.
With the common echo chamber:
""
Windows is bad, eww proprietary bloated spy software and evil Office.
Opensource and Linux is goood.
""
and then
"I have 3000 stars on GitHub now, check out my repos."
Did Microsoft predict the value having trivial access to all those codebases for training
software models?
The kind of insight they have with Microsoft GitHub and Microsoft LinkedIn is quite something.
¹ In stock