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Nobody is forcing anybody to make their code public. It's their choice. You can have your code on your machine and on your servers only. Hosting your code is an

• pearjuice 11y ago
  And what if you are working with more than one person on the same private code base? You work on the same machine? Extreme programming?
  • Walkman 11y ago
    You probably don't know how easy it is to push your code to another machine through SSH and share a Git repository that way.
    • pearjuice 11y ago
      Actually I do, isn't that how it is most frequently done? Fact is that even though it works and you can set it up yourself, it is not a good solution to decentralizing a code base. You might have a private machine to which everybody ssh'es and pushes and pulls from, but only a few do that because they don't want to be/have the ops people who run that box. And that is including but not limited to issues and a sane UI for collaborations. That's very well the problem that github/bitbucket/gitlab and the like solve. So you are telling me that there is no problem and people should just use a private SSH connection to a box they own?
• sytse 11y ago
  For many people hosting their code makes it easier to work on it, especially for collaboration, ci and deploys.