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  2. GitHub - Wikipedia

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    GitHub (/ ˈ ɡ ɪ t h ʌ b /) is a proprietary developer platform that allows developers to create, store, manage, and share their code. It uses Git to provide distributed version control and Github itself provides access control, bug tracking, software feature requests, task management, continuous integration, and wikis for every project. [6]

  3. Timeline of GitHub - Wikipedia

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    GitHub reaches 3.5 million users and 6 million repositories. [1] 31 May: Product: GitHub announces the release of Octokit, a set of client libraries for working with the GitHub API. [75] 15 July: Product: GitHub launches the ChooseALicense.com website to help users choose a free and open-source software license. [76] [77] 15 July: Product

  4. Chris Wanstrath - Wikipedia

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    In June 2018, Microsoft acquired GitHub for $7.5 billion (~$8.96 billion in 2023) in an all-stock deal. [17] [3] At the time, GitHub was the world's largest host service for software code. [10] In addition to GitHub, Wanstrath created the job queue program Resque, [6] [18] the Mustache templating language, [19] and the Atom text editor.

  5. Tom Preston-Werner - Wikipedia

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    Preston-Werner co-founded GitHub in 2008 with Chris Wanstrath, P. J. Hyett and Scott Chacon, as a place to share and collaborate on code. [17] In 2010, Preston-Werner read a comment on Twitter insulting the quality of GitHub's search function. This prompted him to overhaul the service's search, drawing on his experience having worked at ...

  6. Marc Andreessen - Wikipedia

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    Marc Lowell Andreessen [pronunciation?] (born July 9, 1971) is an American businessman and former software engineer.He is the co-author of Mosaic, the first widely used web browser with a graphical user interface; co-founder of Netscape; and co-founder and general partner of Silicon Valley venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz.

  7. History of free and open-source software - Wikipedia

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    The increasing popularity of open-source DVCSs such as git, and then, later, DVCS hosting sites, the most popular of which is GitHub (founded 2008), incrementally reduced the barriers to participation in free software projects still further. With sites like GitHub, no longer did potential contributors have to do things like hunt for the URL for ...

  8. Aaron Swartz - Wikipedia

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    Aaron Hillel Swartz [22] was born in Highland Park, 25 miles (40 kilometers) north of Chicago, [23] [24] to a Jewish family. [25] He was the eldest child of Susan and Robert Swartz and brother to Noah and Ben Swartz. [22] [26] His father founded the software firm Mark Williams Company.

  9. Nat Friedman - Wikipedia

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    He helped grow GitHub to an estimated value of $16.5 billion (~$19.7 billion in 2023), [25] more than double what Microsoft paid for GitHub in 2018. In November 2021, Friedman announced that he was stepping down as CEO. [26] Friedman co-founded California YIMBY in 2017 to address California's housing shortage. [27]