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Understanding Microsoft’s Acquisition of GitHub and its effect on the FOSS Community

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Jul 13, 2018

In the following days of that announcement, thousands of repositories moved from GitHub to other platforms???. But was the movement continues, rational and well-researched, or just riding up the trend? And what can we expect so far from the Microsoft’s acquisition of GitHub? Should the community really be worried?

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