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<h3 class="top-title">Microsoft Acquires GitHub</h3>
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&#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/>
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<h3 >Follow-Up / Talk License</h3> <h3 >Follow-Up / Talk License</h3>
<p>I have a keynote about another interesting topic tomorrow: <p>I have a keynote about another interesting topic tomorrow:

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leadership to move an old PHP+HTML application to the more interactive and leadership to move an old PHP+HTML application to the more interactive and
modern looks that users were demanding by the late 2000s. [ switch slides ] modern looks that users were demanding by the late 2000s. [ switch slides ]
## Preston-Warner: Slide 4 ## Preston-Warner: Slide 4
Enter GitHub, founded in October 2007. GitHub from its very founding learned Enter GitHub, founded in October 2007. GitHub from its very founding learned
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[ next slide ] [ next slide ]
## 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”.