Who owned GitHub?

Microsoft acquired its larger rival GitHub in 2018 for $7.5 billion, which at the time was a high-priced deal in subscription software. GitLab CEO Sid Sijbrandij says his company has more advantages now that GitHub is owned by the world’s largest software developer .

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How does GitHub make money?

GitHub makes money by offering premium subscription plans to teams and organizations as well as a fee it generates when users purchase third-party apps on their platform . Founded in 2008 and headquartered in San Francisco, California, GitHub has become the leading online collaboration tool for all things software.

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Is GitHub safe?

Platform. We keep GitHub safe, secure, and free of spam and abuse so that this can be the platform where developers come together to create. We do this through significant investments in platform security, incident response, and anti-abuse.

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Is it worth GitHub pro?

If you want to work in private with more than three collaborators, and publish from a private repo to a public webpage using GitHub Pages, you want a GitHub Pro account . If you’re pretty sure you’re always going to work in public repos in the open, then you don’t lose anything by staying with a Free account.14 Oca 2019

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