1 year ago

https://www.linkedin.com/in/sasha-medvedovsky-10b2381 GitHub has been an important part of the software development world, and of open source software in particular. It has provided free hosting for open source projects (the https://github.blog/2019-04-29-apache-joins-github-community moved its entire operation to https://github.com/ a few years ago), and played a large part in turning the https://thenewstack.io/git-at-15-how-git-changed-the-way-we-code/ into the popular source control management (SCM) system it is now.

GitHub’s recently commercialized offering of Copilot (which was free https://github.blog/2022-06-21-github-copilot-is-generally-available-to-all-developers/), which delivers AI-powered code composition/auto-completion, was built upon the sourcing of code from the millions of open source projects hosted in GitHub.

Obviously, Copilot wouldn’t work without ingesting millions of code samples from GitHub, so it’s safe to say that the open source code is an integral part of it.

From the beginning, GitHub has been a commercial organization that has turned open source software — git — into a business.