• cley_faye@lemmy.world
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    1 hour ago
    1. Have a project works well
    2. Amass a massive community with lots of goodwill
    3. Project gets bought/merged/under new management
    4. new management destroy everything that attracted the community and goodwill
    5. ???
    6. Somehow, not profit

    I wonder where it’s gone wrong. What would it have cost github to keep operating decently for the vast majority of small users, and still have a business side?

    • ExLisper@lemmy.curiana.net
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      I wonder where it’s gone wrong. What would it have cost github to keep operating decently for the vast majority of small users, and still have a business side?

      Why would Micro$oft keep project that doesn’t bring more and more profits? Github is no longer a product in itself for them. It’s a platform to sell Azure and Copilot subscriptions.

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      42 minutes ago

      They probably could have put a few MS ads on the website for Azure or w/e and actually made a profit. Otherwise, they could have just left it alone, it wasn’t hurting or competing with them.