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Further armchair speculation: you could extract more money from one of them for having an "exclusive" link than you could from both of them having one link each

• atmosx 10y ago
  Indeed. I'm having a hard understanding why Github, Gitlab or Attlasian didn't jump already in requesting full ownership of the project. This is the clearly the most important open source project to their core business.
  • Cogito 10y ago
    If you're not aware, many of the core contributors are employed by these companies, or extensions are built internally at these companies and then released opens source. For example, the long time maintainer Junio works at Google and peff at GitHub. I think the current management of the project, by the Project Leadership Committee, is working well and the project would gain little by coming under the direct management of any single company.
    • ajdlinux 10y ago
      The project would lose a lot by coming under the "management" of any one company. I imagine several forks would quickly ensue.
    • atmosx 10y ago
      I see your points.