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> Git would be popular without github,

Yep.

> github just makes things easier.

Which is the transition between steps 1 and 2 of Embrace, Extend, Extinguish. Though the last step is nowadays perhaps unnecessary, depending on how you look at it: Having co-opted FOSS software like git, what you need to extinguish is not that itself, just any other way to use it than your own. The main example of step 2 was of course "Pull Requests".




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