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Re:Microsoft Is Said to Have Agreed to Acquire GitHub by statictype on Sunday June 03, 2018 @08:33PM (#17223462)
Improving Electron can be done far cheaper and easier than acquiring a company.

The only thing GitHub has that Microsoft can't easily get on their own is the user base. That's what this acquisition will be about.

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Re:Microsoft Is Said to Have Agreed to Acquire GitHub by H4CK3RM4N on Monday June 04, 2018 @12:54AM (#17224761)
But controlling a leading platform so completely isn't cheap.
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