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Stephen Downes

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This is an announcement that will send shockwaves through the developer community. Here's the promise (we'll see if it's actually kept): " GitHub will retain its developer-first ethos and will operate independently to provide an open platform for all developers in all industries. Developers will continue to be able to use the programming languages, tools and operating systems of their choice for their projects — and will still be able to deploy their code to any operating system, any cloud and any device."

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