Comment by raincole

7 days ago

GitHub doesn't have a "moat" either besides network effect. Just like most SaaS.

And it was sold to Microsoft at $7B.

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pjmlp  6 days ago

Mostly because "Microsoft <3 FOSS" phase, and what better manouver than owning Github and dump Codeplex?

Look at Xamarin, almost everything that they had is now gone in modern .NET.

sarchertech  7 days ago

Well that was in the era of free money for one. And the primary value was in all the human made content for AI training.

I’m sure there’d be some value to extract from the agent produced code in this thing, but I doubt it’s anywhere near as much.