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The web is a decentralized hypertext information system. And yet, through IE and strategies leveraging their OS monopoly, Microsoft has put the web into the IE5.5/IE6 dark age. It's been a while - almost a decade. But those of us who have have witnessed Microsoft's Embrace, Extend & Extinguish strategy deployed several times (with lesser and greater success) are warey.

Specifically, the way GitHub "embraced and extended" git (even before the Microsoft acquisition) is to have quite a few things outside the repository - like issues. You can take your source anywhere you want, but a project with 30,000 issues is going to have trouble migrating those issues.




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