In a memo, they laid out key critiques to the GitHub project, suggesting Scott reconsider the premise of hoovering up developer data published under a Creative Commons license without consent or compensation, a former staffer remembers. Microsoft, the memo said, should consider canceling the product, or at the very least take a percentage of the product’s profits and give it back to the open-source community. While Scott was receptive, creating the tool and being first to market was his central focus, the staffer says. In the end, Microsoft donated some money to an existing program for
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