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Re:GitHub Raises $250M at $2B Valuation by mynameishere on Thursday July 30, 2015 @12:26AM (#9973168)
Github is basically Microsoft Word for programmers

That makes no sense at all. It's like the "track changes" feature in Word, maybe. You know--one little feature on a much, much larger tool.

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Re:GitHub Raises $250M at $2B Valuation by Retra on Thursday July 30, 2015 @03:08AM (#9973502)
The point is that it is a standard, critical work tool.
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Re:GitHub Raises $250M at $2B Valuation by hueving on Thursday July 30, 2015 @04:12AM (#9973689)
No it's not. I work in open source and very rarely use github. git is a standard tool, github is only a polished frontend that seems to be a standard amongst web developers.
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Re:GitHub Raises $250M at $2B Valuation by leftnode on Thursday July 30, 2015 @08:13AM (#9974395)
Yeah, there, are, um, a lot of them.
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Re:GitHub Raises $250M at $2B Valuation by adamors on Thursday July 30, 2015 @07:16AM (#9974217)
It's really not. In the last 3 places I worked at we all used Bitbucket because their pricing is more reasonable and it integrates nicely with other Atlassian products like Jira.
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Re:GitHub Raises $250M at $2B Valuation by Retra on Thursday July 30, 2015 @12:18PM (#9976010)
Ok, so Bitbucket is also a standard, critical tool.
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