From Collaborative Coding to Wedding Invitations: #GitHub Is Going Mainstream | Wired.com #plateforme
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Six years ago, Preston-Werner and his co-founders, Chris Wanstrath and PJ Hyett, were typical Bay Area developers. Microsoft was trying, unsuccessfully, to get Preston-Werner to stay on as a coder at PowerSet, the search startup it had just acquired. Wanstrath and Hyett had quit their jobs at CNet to launch a website called FamSpam. It wasn’t taking off.
Working for big companies had soured the three of them. They hated the slowness and bureaucracy, the lack of autonomy. “You work somewhere for two years, until you get so bored and frustrated that you quit,” Preston-Werner says. Meeting over beers at Zeke’s, a South of Market sports bar, they decided to launch GitHub as a side project. The “bad solution” they were trying to fix was Linus Torvalds’ Git software, a program that the inventor of the Linux operating system had designed to keep track of changes.
