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Catherine
@whitequark
this is true but it's also applicable to startups in general so very little changed in practice. github could have been bought by anyone at any point and shut down for any reason
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mcc
@mcclure111
Buying Github is *in line with Microsoft's current direction*— the Microsoft that released WSL and Powershell for Linux, and bought Xamarin— but that's exactly the problem. What happens when their direction next changes? Github is the new Google Code, and could disappear as fast.
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Microsoft buying Github is actually a major reduction in risk. Microsoft has a long history of preserving backwards compatibility and availability. Github under Microsoft is _less_ likely to disappear or become suddenly incompatible.
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