GitHub Is Microsoft’s $7.5B Undo Button
Microsoft can not buy goodwill with me, personally. I worked at the company and was privy to &quot;strategic conversations&quot; whereby they were looking to regain trust with developers to get them back from Android and Google to Windows stack.<p>Microsoft practically forced us to use Windows stack for anything and everything, even when there were much better tools. Under Satya, it was better, but the emphasis is still very much on getting, as Steve Balmer said &quot;Developers developers developers&quot;.<p>Microsoft knows its being challenged in the platform game and that developers have migrated. But having seen the inside of Microsoft corporate, legal, compliance and policy I don&#x27;t have high confidence that this isn&#x27;t another PR project destined for death of the startup.<p>It&#x27;s also a terrifying lesson about the fragility of the open source movement.