While GitHub is home to more than just open source software, if such a migration came to pass, it would be a very bad look both for GitHub and Microsoft.
And, it would a particularly ironic turn, given the very origins of Git: the versioning control system was created by Linus Torvalds in when he was working on development of the Linux kernel, in part as a response to a previous system, BitKeeper, changing its terms away from being free to use.
NET Core and numerous other Microsoft-led projects. I don't think people understand how many of us at Microsoft love GitHub to the bottom of our hearts. So, my parents were equally mad at me [as if I'd been doing drugs]," he told Lev-Ram.
Because he was basically self-taught as a programmer, Wanstrath worried about his ability to succeed. But he decided to take the leap. He quit school to move to San Francisco and take the developer gig. In October , Wanstrath connected with Preston-Werner at a San Francisco meet-up for the community of developers working in the Ruby on Rails programming language.
Preston-Werner had previously founded a digital avatar startup, called Gravatar, that he sold to web developer Automattic in for an undisclosed amount. The two discussed the software developer community's need for a service where large amounts of source code could be stored while users to collaborate with one another on their software projects.
The next month, they added their third co-founder in Wyett, who had worked at CNET with Wanstrath as a senior software engineer on the Chowhound project.
By March , Wanstrath said in a blog post , GitHub already had 2, users for its beta version. GitHub launched for public use in April — a little more than a decade before Microsoft announced its acquisition on Monday.
Once the site went public, GitHub caught on gradually within the developer community, reaching , users by July With its popularity among software developers, GitHub was able to survive without outside funding for the better part of four years, charging individual programmers and businesses money for monthly access to the platform. The removal by GitHub so angered yet another user that the person responded by posting part of GitHub's own proprietary software on the area of the site where digital copyright takedown requests are reported.
The code was adjusted by the person who maintained the project so that it was no longer in violation of the RIAA. The company then brought youtube-dl back online and announced a new process for handling similar claims. Like fellow tech giants Amazon , Apple and Google , Microsoft faces all sorts of challenges related to its bigness, whether from its many rivals, millions of customers, profit-hungry investors or politicians concerned about competition.
GitHub, as a storehouse of open-source projects and a virtual lifeline for programmers, creates tension of a different sort. Some problems GitHub can solve by adhering to the demands of protesting users. Others are more sensitive, like the company's work with U. Immigration and Customs Enforcement. GitHub has refused to cut ties with ICE, leading employees to resign after the agency renewed its contract to use GitHub software.
Key GitHub users published an open letter late last year insisting that GitHub end the contract, citing the agency's separation of children from their parents and other activities.
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