git itself is the real force behind the OSS impact. Github model while successful was merely replacing sourceforge and google code. People always had ways to h

git itself is the real force behind the OSS impact. Github model while successful was merely replacing sourceforge and google code. People always had ways to host and share open source projects. Github enables centralization of code which is not really inline with philosophy of git being fully distributed . Gitlab with its OSS model and the ability to host your own git service makes is bit closer to that vision than Github is.