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Re:Announcing unlimited free private repos by giobox on Monday January 07, 2019 @03:15PM (#18849512)
Focusing solely on the impact to Github’s bottom line kinda misses the entire point of Microsoft wanting to acquire them in the first place.

A decision like this has to be viewed in the wider context of Microsoft’s market strategy and the rest of their developer tool portfolio, of which Github is just one piece.

If Microsoft just cared about short term gains, there were much better ways to blow 8 billion dollars.

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Re:Announcing unlimited free private repos by Ensorceled on Monday January 07, 2019 @06:59PM (#18851608)
But saying 12% is irrelevant to REVENUE is focusing on revenue. You can say losing the 12% is worth it, but you can’t say it’s irrelevant to revenue.
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Re:Announcing unlimited free private repos by MisterOctober on Monday January 07, 2019 @07:51PM (#18851888)
Indeed -- seems to me that the recent MS moves with Github are part of the same thought process that led them to include Bash / WSL in Windows 10.
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