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Because that's not their business model and not everything you use has to be FOSS unless you're RMS
But they could release trimmed community version at least ;)
Given the title and the length of the post I was expecting a lot more detail. > Over the last year we’ve developed our new load balancer, called GLB (GitHub Load Balancer). Today, and over the next few weeks , we will be sharing the design and releasing its components as open source software. Is it common practice to do this? Most recent software/framework/service announcements I've read were just a single, longer po…
I think people choose this pattern when:
* engineers implement something cool
* management want engineering content to promote the company/drive recruitment
* the engineers are pressed for time/not professional technical writers
Some bigger companies stagger the context when it's really hefty and makes sense to chunk it up, plus it drives repeat visitors. For smaller companies, the schedule usually slips, and the first post is usually "look how hard this problem is! wow it's really really hard! isn't is amazing that we even tried to fix it? OK see you next time!".
Yes, I think GitHub and eBay are small companies.
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Github!! Fortress of Open-Source!!! But why they are not open-sourcing GitHub just like GitLab?
They mention in the post that they will be open-sourcing this code over the coming weeks.
It looks like marketers leveraging open source on their marketing blog that leverages developers.
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Why do you think they should open source it?
Why not? They could release community version at least.
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Why do you think they should open source it?
Why not? They could release community version at least.
I love using GitHub and appreciate the impact it is and has had. But this post is what is wrong with the web today. They have taken a distributed-at-it's-plumbing technology, and centralised it so much that now we need to innovate new load balancing mechanisms. Years ago I worked at Demon Internet and we tried to give every dial up user a piece of webspace - just a disk always connected. Almost no one ever used them.…
It is then justified that their creation is needed because "no one else has these kinds of problems" but then they open source them as if lots of other people could benefit from it. Why open source something if it has an expected user base of 1?
Again, I am not surprised by this. They whole push of Github is not to create a community which works together on a single project in a collaborative, consensus based method, but rather lots of people doing their own thing and only occasionally sharing code. It is no wonder that they follow this meme internally.