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Tuesday, November 25, 2025

Micro$oft is an undisputed leader at monetizing, and doing it in Bill's way and image while trying to look less rapacious than Bill was.

github, free and freemium - https://github.com/pricing

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alternatives to github:  https://itsfoss.com/github-alternatives/

M$ has interjected Copilot into play, in github, which those alternatives fail to match. Try sometime to save to local storage a Copilot chat. You can even ask Copilot about it, and learn it's for your own good - insecure local storage and all.

It is easy to be of two minds about Copilot. About shifting, local reliance to THE CLOUD. That is its own story, for example. Over 5 Gb, monitized? 

M$ lost to Gmail - back then - Bill wanting to monetize it by a BS cutoff/limit to free use, Google offering reasonable free mailbox storage, etc. 

Better example of THE CLOUD, its happenings these days, and M$/Google? (an MSN link

Google DeepMind has done breakthrough things. Micro$oft has monetized.

UPDATE: Copilot is so easy to use, ChatGDP 5 being the engine, M$ doing the integration into other M$ things.

To learn, navigate to Hugging Face, and see everybody has something.