Most articles bashing/unbashing github always forget what to me is the real point. The problem is not in the git part of GitHub. GitHub is a social network: st

Most articles bashing/unbashing github always forget what to me is the real point. The problem is not in the git part of GitHub. GitHub is a social network: star, fork, comment, popularity. The fact that some devs would see github as the only place to be to get to make their contributions "public" it is acting more as a social network and less about a git hosting tool. That's the real lock-in. That's also GitHub's value. It is the largest social network of developers.