Thanks for your time on these comments. I may have to eat some words about the general quality of HN discussion ;-P Your point on OSD-gated repositories is de

Thanks for your time on these comments. I may have to eat some words about the general quality of HN discussion ;-P Your point on OSD-gated repositories is dead on. As a practical matter, I think many of s run non-free software on Linux. I'm typing this into Chrome on Debian, and I'm sure I've enabled some non-free APT repos. It's also interesting to see how many of the "current generation" hosts and repositories made the jump from OSD-only to "anything you're willing to have us distribute". GitHub's in that box, with npm. There is definitely a potential holdout problem on adoption. But if there's any big, general, meta conclusion to take from Open Source in recent years past, it's that little players make independent decisions that add up to a compelling proposition, and enterprise follows the value. Niggling structural or terms objections fall away.