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Legitimate question. Do you think GitHub would accept a lucrative offer from Google? On the order of billions of dollars. How would that look? Where would we all be then? How much would it change things? Is it even realistic?

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Google sells ads. Something like 98% of their revenue is ads. I seriously think they are at this point becoming allergic to any sort of for-pay business model.

Just as a little correction, Google makes 6% of its revenue throgh Youtube, so saying 98% is from ads is wrong. Link: http://www.digitalmusicnews.com/permalink/2015/02/27/10-year...

> Google makes 6% of its revenue throgh Youtube, so saying 98% is from ads is wrong.

Doesn't Google make money on Youtube by showing ads?

YouTube also sells and rents movies.

I highly doubt even .5% of their revenue comes from that.

well, afaik, youtube makes 100% of its money from ads

Not that it really matters, but they do rent movies

https://www.youtube.com/user/movies

Google has ad revenue sources that are not Youtube. Like you said, Youtube represents only a small part of its revenue stream, but this doesn't mean its revenue stream is not dominated by selling ads.

I think it's perfectly realistic, and wouldn't necessarily mean things would go south post take over. YouTube is still very much alive, brand and all, and it's been many years since the take over.

But YouTube has definitely started south. One example: I was given a Google+ profile (no idea how), and I can't delete it because then all my YouTube videos get deleted. It's baffling.

Actually, I don't think today's Google would make that bet because of challenges in monetizing it without actually incurring a customer service overhead.

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