Yeah exactly, it is extremely easy to imagine this, because when Github was acquired by Microsoft in 2018, Diane Greene (who headed Google Cloud at the time) commented on this
It sounds like Google would have paid some amount of billions for Github, but not the amount that Microsoft paid
I personally don't think Google would have tried to monetize Google Code, even if it had 10x or even 50x the users that it eventually had. (And I say that having worked at Google, and on Google Code briefly!)
I think it made more sense as complementary to another product (which in some sense explains a big problem with developing products at Google)
It sounds like Google would have paid some amount of billions for Github, but not the amount that Microsoft paid
I personally don't think Google would have tried to monetize Google Code, even if it had 10x or even 50x the users that it eventually had. (And I say that having worked at Google, and on Google Code briefly!)
I think it made more sense as complementary to another product (which in some sense explains a big problem with developing products at Google)
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https://www.cnbc.com/2018/07/24/google-cloud-ceo-diane-green...
CNBC previously reported that Google was looking at buying GitHub, but Greene wouldn’t confirm the report.
“I think the only thing I’ve said is that I wouldn’t have minded having them,” said Greene.