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Compare this with Microsoft’s other notable purchase of recent years, LinkedIn.

At LinkedIn they are tightening all of the screws and extracting cash from all comers.

What is different about GitHub?

My guess is GitLab.

This is an old strategy for Microsoft. They used to call it Embrace, Extend, Extinguish.

>>alex_y+(OP)
Linkedin was always a predatory organization, and now they are empowered to do what they actually wanted to do without the risk of going bankrupt if they miscalculate. Github is also empowered to do what they actually wanted to do without the risk of going bankrupt if they miscalculate. This is what you end up. You can't fundamentally change an organization by acquisition without destroying it. For example, Skype was destroyed like that. Github and Linkedin were not, and you are seeing them acting with fewer constraints. Linkedin is using their newfound power for evil, Github much less so.