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>> Going forward, GitHub will remain an open platform, which any developer can plug into and extend.

Does an “open platform” mean “open source” or “a plugin system”? I think making it open source would alleviate a lot of dev concerns.

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If they meant "open source" I have to imagine they would have said so. "Remain" is the key word there. Github is already an open platform with an API and plugin system. Github is not already open source, so it can't remain so.

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