People Do Not Change: And Microsoft?
What to Expect from the Acquisition of GitHub?
GitHub today is the largest hosting service of its kind for IT and blockchain projects. It stores the codebase of most crypto projects, including Bitcoin and Ethereum, Apple products, Amazon, Facebook, Google, Walmart, as well as those of NASA and the U.S. government. With 24 million developers, 85 million projects, and billions of open source lines, GitHub outperformed competing services from Microsoft (Microsoft CodePlex) and Google (Google Code). From the very beginning, the project was conceived as a "social network for programmers,” where one can not only publish codes but also participate in the discussion of other developments. The history of actions on GitHub is a "CV" of a programmer. At the same time, everyone can publish open source code to GitHub absolutely free of charge, but the platform charges for storing private codes, thus monetizing the service.