Remember that _GitHub used to be profitable_. Then they took $250m in investment and became unprofitable.

And that was three years ago. So what’s the point of outrage now?

It's funny because people are raging over things that Microsoft "said" 20 years ago.

I guess it's a great example of why taking funding can be bad, depending on what your goals are.

Who says I wasn't? And I know Github wasn't a non-profit. You make quite a number of assumptions with your statement.

The difference for me is that I was supporting Github (by paying) to be an independent company, warts and all. If their goal was to always sell specifically to Microsoft, I would have voiced many concerns very early on. I would much rather they had sold to Mozilla or another in the open source community.

Who in the open source community could afford to buy them, once they took VC at 2 billion valuation? maybe Red Hat, but even that seems stretching it?

How would Mozilla afford this? Anyone in the open source community? The selling price of $7.5B is huge. Red Hat’s market cap is only 4x what GitHub sold for.

What is SV? There are too many definitions:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SV

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