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Re:GitHub lost $66M in nine months of 2016 by adventured on Thursday December 15, 2016 @09:13PM (#13190531)
Post VC investment, GitHub would never be allowed to exist in maintenance mode. It would be liquidated in one form or another if things were that dire. Once they took the venture capital, the possible outcomes narrowed considerably.
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Re:GitHub lost $66M in nine months of 2016 by empath75 on Friday December 16, 2016 @01:20AM (#13191459)
They could go non-profit like the Mozilla foundation.
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Re:GitHub lost $66M in nine months of 2016 by nitrogen on Friday December 16, 2016 @01:48AM (#13191554)
But not if the owners (investors) want their money back instead.
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