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If GitHub was open source, we wouldn't be able to make money to hire people to make awesome features. An Open Source GitHub would without a doubt be a much wors
by kneath 16y ago
If GitHub was open source, we wouldn't be able to make money to hire people to make awesome features. An Open Source GitHub would without a doubt be a much worse experience for everyone.
- dstone 16y agoIt would probably look more like Gitorious does. Gitorious is 8 million time better than rolling your own git hosting, but GitHub is so much more polished. I think a large part of that is because Gitorious is open source, so there's nobody dedicated to it as a full-time job. Whereas you guys have a handful of developers working night and day on creating pure awesome. You guys rock.
- arst 16y agoYou obviously understand your situation much better than I do, but don't you think that one of Github's big differentiators at this point is the network effect? Sure if you open sourced the whole site someone could put up a clone, but without Github's enormous community it'd be difficult for them to gain any traction.