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Good to hear. Still, I have these memories of Facebook buying Whatsapp for too much money and first saying it will be impossible to integrate both platforms. Surprise, surprise, later they did find a way to integrate.

Microsoft paying 7.5B for something that looses money every year ? And not having any problems with that ? What will the shareholders say ?

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Well, I think that's the point. They want to monetize the enterprise edition better. Combining GitHub's product with Microsoft's cabal of credit-card-ready existing purchasers. Microsoft has built a community of developers that expect to pay for dev tools, which is rare.

So, they can have the existing product operate as-is, and Microsoft can make money by moving their legacy high-paying consumers to something better.

the stock price just went over 100. i think the shareholders are fine

The shareholders see potential. I also think there are many ways for Microsoft to make money from Github. But that means changes the general Github user will not like (ads ? higher fees ? tracking ? killing atom ?). My point is that the 'Hello, Github' implies nothing will change.

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