Looking Back on the GitHub Acquisition: Are You Still on GitHub?
Five years ago, in June 2018, Microsoft announced it was buying GitHub. At the time, there was a tremendous amount of screeching in the developer communities. Although the site was moving from proprietary product owned by a private company to a proprietary product owned by a public company, which is more transparent because it's public, people assumed the worst. Some of the contemporary comments included: "Embrace, exten...
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