Uploaded June 2026 | Updated September 2026, 1 week ago
Microsoft paid $7.5 billion for GitHub in 2018 and promised it would stay independent forever. Satya Nadella said it himself: GitHub would keep its developer-first ethos and operate as an open platform.
They broke that promise piece by piece. First came GitHub Copilot — an AI trained on millions of open-source repositories without paying or crediting the developers who wrote the code. Then came the lawsuits. Then came the layoffs. Then, in 2025, GitHub's independence ended completely when Microsoft folded it into its CoreAI division.
The final move happened quietly in the fine print. A Terms of Service update gave Microsoft the right to train AI on your code, your prompts, and your work — opted in by default, unless you found the setting and turned it off.
This is the story of how the world's largest code platform went from a community of 28 million developers to a Microsoft product line, and why thousands are migrating to GitLab the same day they read the news.
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0:00 The Promise Microsoft Broke
0:35 How Four Developers Built GitHub From Nothing
2:50 The Acquisition Nobody Saw Coming
5:10 GitHub Copilot: Training AI on Stolen Code
9:00 The Lawsuit That's Still Pending
11:00 The Fine Print That Changed Everything
13:40 What You Can Do About It Right Now
#GitHub #Microsoft #BigTech #Microsoft #TechBetrayal #Copilot #OpenSource
Microsoft paid $7.5 billion for GitHub in 2018 and promised it would stay independent forever. Satya Nadella said it himself: GitHub would keep its developer-first ethos and operate as an open platform.
They broke that promise piece by piece. First came GitHub Copilot — an AI trained on millions of open-source repositories without paying or crediting the developers who wrote the code. Then came the lawsuits. Then came the layoffs. Then, in 2025, GitHub's independence ended completely when Microsoft folded it into its CoreAI division.
The final move happened quietly in the fine print. A Terms of Service update gave Microsoft the right to train AI on your code, your prompts, and your work — opted in by default, unless you found the setting and turned it off.
This is the story of how the world's largest code platform went from a community of 28 million developers to a Microsoft product line, and why thousands are migrating to GitLab the same day they read the news.
Subscribe for more stories about the tech empires that got too powerful, too greedy, and too arrogant — and the internet that always fights back.
0:00 The Promise Microsoft Broke
0:35 How Four Developers Built GitHub From Nothing
2:50 The Acquisition Nobody Saw Coming
5:10 GitHub Copilot: Training AI on Stolen Code
9:00 The Lawsuit That's Still Pending
11:00 The Fine Print That Changed Everything
13:40 What You Can Do About It Right Now
#GitHub #Microsoft #BigTech #Microsoft #TechBetrayal #Copilot #OpenSource
