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Re:What is wrong with Microsoft buying GitHub by dfcowell on Monday June 04, 2018 @05:11AM (#17225902)
Microsoft don't have a competing product in their portfolio to extinguish Github in favour of - and any overt moves like kicking projects off the platform would instantly torpedo any value the acquisition brought as every single project left the service in protest.

I don't really see how anything other than being perfect stewards of Github works out in their favour.

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Re:What is wrong with Microsoft buying GitHub by zeusk on Monday June 04, 2018 @05:39AM (#17226088)
> Microsoft don't have a competing product in their portfolio to extinguish Github in favour of

Actually they did (VSTS, TFS), but it was so hilariously bad that they started moving to git a couple years ago.

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Re:What is wrong with Microsoft buying GitHub by crankybear1337 on Monday June 04, 2018 @06:15AM (#17226293)
They also used to have CodePlex, but eventually they killed it and migrated projects over to GitHub.
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