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Re:GitHub was down by syshum on Monday July 31, 2017 @06:44PM (#14896530)
And you believe that makes them an "Open Source Company"

To me in order to be a Open Source company your primary product must itself be Open Source.

RedHat as an example... RHEL is open source

GitLab.. GitLab is open source

These are open source companies

Hiring a few devs for work on some side projects that are open source does not make one an Open Source Company

If they open GitHub Core then they can claim to be a open source company

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Re:GitHub was down by heartbreak on Monday July 31, 2017 @11:34PM (#14897718)
Aaron Patterson, who I'll continue to use as an example, works full time on Rails while being paid by Github. Rails is not a side project for him.

Also as mentioned elsewhere in this thread, Github has published plenty of open source software. Electron, Atom, resque, and updates to git itself.

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Re:GitHub was down by syshum on Tuesday August 01, 2017 @06:14AM (#14899209)
It is a side project for the company, as are all the other projects you mentioned

As I clearly stated, GitHub can not be a Open Source company simply because they hired some devs to work on Open Source

Do you consider Microsoft to be a Open Source Company?

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