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Linus Torvalds now on GitHub

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Re: Linus Torvalds now on GitHub

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Post by cookiecaper »

It'd've been advantageous to see this go on a purely open service like Gitorious instead. They often provide similar features as GitHub and could definitely use the exposure of Linus's account.

I use and enjoy GitHub, so this definitely isn't a personal gripe, I'd just like to see the competition in that space heat up a bit, and there'd be bonus points if we could simultaneously promote a completely open platform.

Re: Linus Torvalds now on GitHub

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Post by thedjpetersen »

cookiecaper wrote: post #2

It'd've been advantageous to see this go on a purely open service like Gitorious instead. They often provide similar features as GitHub and could definitely use the exposure of Linus's account. I use and enjoy GitHub, so this definitely isn't a personal gripe, I'd just like to see the competition in that space heat up a bit, and there'd be bonus points if we could simultaneously promote a completely open platform.

The problem with Github being completely open source is that no one would pay for the service part of it, which is the only way it can exist.

Re: Linus Torvalds now on GitHub

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Post by sp332 »

thedjpetersen wrote: post #4
cookiecaper wrote: post #2

It'd've been advantageous to see this go on a purely open service like Gitorious instead. They often provide similar features as GitHub and could definitely use the exposure of Linus's account. I use and enjoy GitHub, so this definitely isn't a personal gripe, I'd just like to see the competition in that space heat up a bit, and there'd be bonus points if we could simultaneously promote a completely open platform.

The problem with Github being completely open source is that no one would pay for the service part of it, which is the only way it can exist.

I don't understand your point. Surely people do pay for hosted storage, even when the code is available?

Re: Linus Torvalds now on GitHub

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Post by veyron »

cookiecaper wrote: post #2

It'd've been advantageous to see this go on a purely open service like Gitorious instead. They often provide similar features as GitHub and could definitely use the exposure of Linus's account. I use and enjoy GitHub, so this definitely isn't a personal gripe, I'd just like to see the competition in that space heat up a bit, and there'd be bonus points if we could simultaneously promote a completely open platform.

Can you explain what exactly is closed with github that is open with gitorious? (I confess lack of familiarity with both)

Re: Linus Torvalds now on GitHub

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Post by bostonvaulter2 »

veyron wrote: post #8
cookiecaper wrote: post #2

It'd've been advantageous to see this go on a purely open service like Gitorious instead. They often provide similar features as GitHub and could definitely use the exposure of Linus's account. I use and enjoy GitHub, so this definitely isn't a personal gripe, I'd just like to see the competition in that space heat up a bit, and there'd be bonus points if we could simultaneously promote a completely open platform.

Can you explain what exactly is closed with github that is open with gitorious? (I confess lack of familiarity with both)

Gitorious's web front-end is entirely open source (but a huge pain to setup) but Github's web front-end is proprietary (although they open source many of their backend libraries).
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