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Jun 8, 2018 at 21:01
"GitHub makes it easier for large, loosely coordinated groups of programmers—in corporations, for instance—to use git. It has a well-designed web interface. If you don’t think that’s worth $7.5 billion, you’ve never read the git manual."
GitHub Is Microsoft’s $7.5 Billion Undo Button
GitHub Is Microsoft’s $7.5 Billion Undo Button
Steve Ballmer spent years hating on open source software. Satya Nadella recognized that the service has become indispensable to programmers.

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Aug 6, 2019 at 23:16
@azure@pleroma.site Agreed, just-so stories often sound plausible and then some releases a great Free software implementation of $THING. I do suspect there are some domains where the incentives don't work for FOSS though. Projects needs to be fun to work on (for small hobbyist/side projects) or valuable for corporations to publish (so they hire someone to work on it). AAA games or tax software probably won't become FOSS. Am I too pessimistic?