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Nat Friedman - Reading Ancient Scrolls, Open Source, & AI

Dwarkesh Podcast

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Microsoft's GitHub Acquisition Was a Forcing Function

I thought Microsoft, honestly, I thought Microsoft could stop open source. And yeah, that didn't end up being the case. In fact, Microsoft when we bought GitHub we pledged all of our patent portfolio to open source. That was one of the things that we did as part of it. It wasn't that there was like some business strategic reason. More so it was just like an idea whose time had come.

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