Even Ignoring the value and the features, Employers don't ask for your git link, they ask for your GitHub account. And since most projects are on GitHub having all of your projects there tooz makes it easier to see all of your commits, making your profile look more active.
That's without mentioning the ease of discovery and issue reporting since everyone has an account.
Embrace
Extend <-- here
Extinguish
Do you mean copilot? I would not classify that as extending anything. It's just a thing they made.
"Monetizing goodwill" is not an extend.
And the idea of the extend of EEE applying to all of open source at once, the way you could apply to a product or a standard or a protocol, doesn't really make sense.
It's basically Microsoft saying "Here is a thing that looks like it might in some way eventually be a threat to our business model and/or we can make some money off of it -- let's get our hooks in now and see what happens, we have the money to do it."
EEE doesn't need a specific plan but it does need some kind of target standard. Getting into an emerging market, without specific kinds of integration or malfeasance, is just competition.
1. Acquire company for tens of billions.
2. Intentionally ruin own investment.
3. ???
4. PROFIT!
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1. Acquire company for $7.5bn in stock, so fortunes are joined rather than cash paid
2. Still charge money for it
3. Create an AI product out of the open source bit of it, justifying the price tag, as well as build links to Microsoft dev tools to entice OSS back into the Microsoft ecosystem
4. Maybe profit, but almost certainly not loss