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100% they tried. Can‘t imagine Google and Amazon not wanting GitHub.

But with regards to big acquisitions, MS is ironically and quite surprisingly able to fly under the radar in terms of antitrust. Literally every other tech company is not.

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I'd guess its a bit less irony and more that by virtue of having already been through various high-profile antitrust investigations, MS is somewhat uniquely well positioned to understand how to avoid/manage similar scrutiny in the future.

Microsoft can see a lot of data which means they can have plenty of dirt on people involved in anti trust stuff. Beyond certain point companies can do what they want.

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