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Re:Why GitHub Won by Jyaif on Monday September 09, 2024 @04:16PM (#41493149)
> We folded it up because we achieved the goal we sought at the time, and didn't see a reason to continue.

In 2018, MS bought Github for 7B.

Google Code started to be shutdown mid-2015. In 2015 it wasn't clear yet that it would be valuable for Google to host the world's code?

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Re:Why GitHub Won by rty32 on Monday September 09, 2024 @06:22PM (#41494785)
Well, it is hard/very distasteful to put ads on a source code hosting website, so this likely isn't aligned with Google's interest. No, I am not joking.
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Re:Why GitHub Won by guappa on Tuesday September 10, 2024 @09:02AM (#41500374)
github shows me ads to their other tools, conferences and whatever all the time. And my company is a paying customer.
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