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> Everyone complaining about MS buying GitHub needs to offer a better solution MS not buying GitHub?
And that's better for GitHub how?
The complaints against MS buying it are not because are not made with the consideration that the deal is bad for GitHub itself.
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I always thought people posting content on Tumblr/Medium/WordPress were making a mistake, that they were getting very little in return for their work. It's starting to become clear that hosting your project on someone else's servers has many of the same issues.
GitHub provides a central, well-known "hub" for code collaboration. Due to its success and popularity, it has achieved a network effect that is really difficult to replicate. (Google wasn't able to do it.) If GitHub were to go away or deterioriate in some way, something else would inevitably take its place. Putting your project on github is the best way to ensure that you have the largest possible number of eyes on i…
Potentially. Or it means that your work becomes diluted and lost in the ocean. The Instagram problem: many eyes but they're focused on a few targets. Most 'normal' posters will have only a handful of followers and a few 'likes'.
If you have a specialised codebase, say something to do with astrophotography, putting it on Github isn't really going to launch it into the mainstream with thousands of contributors who just stumbled upon it. People who need it will find it by other channels regardless of where it is hosted.