Mark Zuckerberg loves hackers. The "hacker way" is at the core of Zuckeberg's own personal ethos, and he's done his best to inject it straight into his company's DNA. As he wrote in Facebook's IPO filing: "There's a hacker mantra that you'll hear a lot around Facebook offices: 'Code wins arguments.'"
It's an attitude that would sit well with Github, the daily gathering spot of the world's most active community of coders.
The service lets coders open-source their projects, follow one another, and smoothly collaborate by synchronizing their development work. Github wouldn't be a traditional Facebook acquisition, but there's obvious appeal to the idea of the world's largest social network buying the hacker community's hangout spot of choice.
"Given that Facebook is an extremely engineering-centric company (even more so than most tech companies), and given that Github is one of the most social (and most useful) productivity tools, they would make a great match," says Venmo founder Andrew Kortina, a rapid Github user.
Facebook is another fan: It's got dozens of Github repositories that the company's "product hacker" engineers use to streamline their development work.
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