👓 GitHub Is Microsoft’s $7.5 Billion Undo Button | Bloomberg

Read GitHub Is Microsoft’s $7.5 Billion Undo Button by Paul Ford (Bloomberg.com)
Steve Ballmer spent years hating on open source software. Satya Nadella recognized that the service has become indispensable to programmers.
A nice analysis piece about the GitHub purchase for the non-technical. It highlights the fact that a nice and simple UI can be worth its weight in gold.

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