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Heck, I already prefer Gitlab and/or Bitbucket because they let me run free (or at least self-hosted in Gitlab's case, not sure what their hosted option's like) private repos. Github's just got the mindshare going for it. But maybe now that'll change.
I'd say +1 for GitLab. I just checked it out and like the UI better than GitHub anyways. I'm switching over and not looking back.
The other was the self hosted option.
Ask yourself and ask your dev friends, who is paying for Github? I personally don't know a single person that is subscribed to it even after spending 5 years in academia and several others in the job pool. And yet every single person that I know && that can code is more than acquainted with github! Now this could be the result of a lack of business acumen on github's part or stubborness from the users. In any case, i…
It's interesting that the HN community continues to make reference to the prospect of a decentralized internet when Git was built to be decentralized in the first place. In spite of this, we all have congregated around GitHub for the community and are shocked when the centralized source we've been using gets acquired by a company we don't trust. That's sort of the whole point of centralization, you can't trust it. Ma…
Centralization has an undeniable fundamental attraction. Everything, really, seems to naturally trend towards centralization, and then major scandals reverse the trend. We will probably swing back and forth between the two in perpetuity. The whole darn internet was built to be decentralized. And yet we all use GMail, the same handful of DNS servers, the same short list of major trunk hubs, the same shrinking list of…
Sorry, tangential thought, I agree with your main point, and the others are much tougher.
I don't quite understand why people are sad or disappointed about this acquisition. You should be extremely elated about it. You know why? Github was never an Open Source product itself but sat on top of the Open Source community and used that "goodwill" to license and sell its proprietary software. Now that another proprietary software-maker has acquired this company, maybe we can all finally adopt the principle tha…
Although this doesn't directly have anything to do with open-source; look at what happened to Skype, LinkedIn, and other companies they acquired.
"Requires Windows 10".
"Best viewed with Microsoft Edge".
"This project violates our terms of service by competing with a Microsoft product."
OK, where do we move everything?
Just posted the petition on Hacker News: > Github petition: please remain independent https://github.com/independent-github/petition
I don't quite understand why people are sad or disappointed about this acquisition. You should be extremely elated about it. You know why? Github was never an Open Source product itself but sat on top of the Open Source community and used that "goodwill" to license and sell its proprietary software. Now that another proprietary software-maker has acquired this company, maybe we can all finally adopt the principle tha…
With these free options available, people in community were less interested in putting effort to free (as in speech) alternatives for these closed source products.
Ask yourself and ask your dev friends, who is paying for Github? I personally don't know a single person that is subscribed to it even after spending 5 years in academia and several others in the job pool. And yet every single person that I know && that can code is more than acquainted with github! Now this could be the result of a lack of business acumen on github's part or stubborness from the users. In any case, i…
You're looking at the wrong people. It's companies who are paying for GitHub.
Earlier quoted context omitted.
I was going to quote YouTube as the one counterexample to your otherwise valid rule. What's wrong with YouTube? (other than being part of the Google Surveillance State GoStaPo)
Videos get demonetised for questionable or non reasons Subscribers don't see videos from those they're subscribed to in their home page(a depressingly large percentage of the time). Things like the YouTube inbox are so 'well' pushed to the background that most people don't remember they exist, let alone know how to use them for anything. Recommendations are borked, and often consist of videos you've already seen ten…