Microsoft promises to keep GitHub independent and open
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GitHub will remain an open platform that any developer can plug into and extend, Microsoft promises.Unsurprisingly, while the core of GitHub won’t change, Microsoft does plan to extend GitHub’s enterprise services and integrate them with its own sales and partner channels.Microsoft’s acquisition and integration of Xamarin has, at least from the outside, been a success (and Friedman himself always seems very happy about the outcome when I talk to him), so I think this bodes quite well for GitHub.During today’s press call, Friedman also stressed Microsoft’s commitment to keeping GitHub as open as it is today — but he also plans to expand the service and its community.Friedman echoed that in our interview later in the day and noted that he expected the developer community to be skeptical of the mashup of these two companies.
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