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From: "Bradley M. Kuhn" <bkuhn@ebb.org>
Date: Sun, 2 Feb 2025 13:19:15 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] Microsoft Acquired GitHub: Slide 5

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+<h3 class="top-title">Microsoft Acquires GitHub</h3>
+<img src="github-acquired.png" align="right"  />
+<p class="copious" align="left">
+  &#8226;&nbsp; Microsoft Acquired GitHub in 2018-10<br/>
+ &#8226;&nbsp;  &hellip; but Microsoft was <em>always</em> very excited about
+  <strong> non-copylefted FOSS</strong> <br/>
+ &#8226;&nbsp; They've been trying for 30 years to reduce the amount of
+ copylefted code in FOSS.<br/>
+ &#8226;&nbsp; GitHub was the obvious partner to help them do it.<br/>
+ </p>
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  <h3 >Follow-Up / Talk License</h3>
  <p>I have a keynote about another interesting topic tomorrow:
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 Enter GitHub, founded in October 2007.  GitHub from its very founding learned
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+## Microsoft Acquired GitHub: Slide 5
+
+Ultimately, Microsoft was a perfect match for GitHub.  [ Karen should say: ]
+I once spoke at Microsoft and asked them publicly apologize for calling the
+GPL a cancer back in 2002.  The main feedback I got from high-ranking
+Microsoft employees was a “How Dare You Even Ask!?!?” kind of response.
+
+Microsoft, and indeed most proprietary software companies, are not our
+friends.  They don't want to help us make more FOSS (not copylefted, anyway).
+GitHub is much smarter than SourceForge.  Instead of pushing advertising into
+FOSS (as SourceForge did and failed), Microsoft offers GitHub as a
+loss-leader product for FOSS developers, so that they are trained.
+
+Bradley mentioned that he presented his capstone undergrad project at an ACM
+conference in 1995.  Every single attendee was given a gratis copy of
+Windows 95.  (Bradley confirms that this is the only Microsoft license of any
+kind that he's ever agreed to.)  The point of Microsoft's methods are clear —
+going back decades: get people addicted to our proprietary stuff by offering
+it gratis at first, and then finding ways to sell add-ons.
+
+While we don't like the term, Bradley calls this “free as in cocaine”.