Research Lit Review – References

Finley, K. (2016). The Problem With Putting All the World’s Code in GitHub. Retrieved from Wired: http://www.wired.com/2015/06/problem-putting-worlds-code-github.

This article explains how much of an impact it would have if GitHub was “destroyed” in a way similar to the ancient library of Alexandria.

Johnson, K. (2018, November 9). GitHub passes 100 million repositories. Retrieved February 25, 2020, from https://venturebeat.com/2018/11/08/github-passes-100-million-repositories/

An article that gives a good idea about how big GitHub is.

GitHub. (2019, June 30). Diversity, Inclusion, & Belonging at GitHub in 2019. Retrieved February 25, 2020, from https://github.com/about/diversity/report

2019 GitHub report on Diversity, Inclusion, & Belonging for their employees.

Greene, J. (2018). Microsoft is buying GitHub for $7.5 billion in stock. The Wall Street Journal.

This 2018 article provides a value of how much GitHub is worth and how big/growing it still is.

Chan, R. (2019, January 12). GitHub makes its first major move since Microsoft bought it for $7.5 billion – and it’s something customers have long been asking for. Retrieved February 25, 2020, from https://www.businessinsider.com/github-adds-free-private-repositories-2019-1

Article that explains GitHub’s first major move since Microsoft bought it: giving away unlimited free hosting for private coding projects.

github.com Competitive Analysis, Marketing Mix and Traffic. (n.d.). Retrieved February 25, 2020, from https://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/github.com

This site provides tons of interesting information for GitHub’s statistics which may be useful for me.