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then it’s practically a tautology
Most of western philosophy is just a bunch of tautologies. That is what makes it interesting.
how do you figure?
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Re: GitHub Is Microsoft’s $7.5B Undo Button
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> I don't want an account on everybody's git{lab,hub,ea,xxx} instance I want a single identity that people can trust is me. I know blockchain is excessively overhyped, but to my limited understanding this appears to be a good fit... Look at how cryptocurrencies work, a wallet is singular (i.e your identity), exchanges and mining pools are numerous and independent (hosts and services for git repos). The vital part to…
Yes, I think identity management/authentication/trust is a problem space that should be separate from version control, because it can serve so many other interesting applications. By the way, I'm not sure if something like a blockchain is necessary here. You could use a simple public key cryptosystem, where your identity equals the public key, and you prove that you have that identity by using your private key in a c…
> By the way, I'm not sure if something like a blockchain is necessary here. You could use a simple public key cryptosystem.
I think you're right public crypto is enough... i'm just applying blockchain unnecessarily.
I can see this working in a really nice way: right now people are dealing with "migrating" and having to choose to loose PR/issues starts etc that these platforms provide, all of that could be implicit to the repo with zero effort to use a different platform.
- Public crypto for repo authority (who can commit, who can merge PRs, who can manage issues etc - preferably more granularity than current platforms)
- A common Issues/PRs etc format is saved into the repo
- Hosts are networked, they sync repos with each other allong with any platform data... anyone can add (sync) a repo from github to gitlab without being the author (ownership is done by crypto not platform accounts, each platform/host would verify the repo content when syncing from some other host).
In other words, platforms like github and gitlab etc just become a viewport and a node in the network, like there are GUIs for git, github would be just another GUI for the collaboration protocols... at this point you could even do it offline with a headless server, the purpose of github/gitlab is to provide hosting and good UX etc. This would mean that a repo can simultaneously exist on any platform, there is no platform boundary, you could accept a PR from a user using gitlab on github... it wouldn't matter where they came from. Or if you hate all these platforms you can just use the cli and accept a PR from someone using these platforms (you would just need a public git host that the other host/platforms can sync with).
How the crypto integrates with the repo would have to be well thought out as it's essentially completely independent of platform accounts, anyone could locally clone the repo and attempt to push something to your public server (or a hosting platforms server on your behalf).
Re: GitHub Is Microsoft’s $7.5B Undo Button
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Which links ? Because if I host my projects on framagit, there’s no link to gitlab except maybe for documentation
There'll be a link to framagit.org. Links from other parts of the web. When someone blogs about your software, it'll be a link to that URL etc
Ok, you can also setup your own domain name I guess if you want to avoid that (like with github pages)
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You've got your history wrong. Free browsers were always available. Mosaic first, Netscape and then Firefox, with plenty of other lower market share offerings. Microsoft didn't commoditize anything.
Netscape was basically shareware - it cost money, but hardly anyone paid for it. Since shareware is kind of an alien concept these days, many people remember Netscape as "always free" but it was not really.
Many users would have obtained Navigator from ISP and magazine cover disks etc. So those copies would have been paid for as part of the price of the magazine or connection.
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Cmon, google does the same thing, Facebook does the same thing. They are all at the scale where they can’t adopt random JavaScript framework of the week.
Google cares about ads and Facebook cares about monopolizing social graph tech with ad targeting applications. Microsoft historically wanted to monopolize everything. Your operating system, developer tools, office suites, Internet browsers... everything.
Yes you are right - Google definitely isn't a monopoly around search nor Facebook for social networks.
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Just hope most go to a common place which appears it will be GitLab You know that Gitlab is also VC backed, right? They have to exit in the same way as Github did. It’s baked into their DNA. The only question now is who buys them. What will you do if that’s Oracle?
But GitLab has an open core and GitHub is closed source.
that doesn't matter much, as the platform is only one side, while the hosting/service angle is the other. ultimately, hosting your code yourself is the only safe option, but of course it comes with its own downsides.