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On the other hand Github could also become the next sourceforge.
by zitterbewegung 8y ago
On the other hand Github could also become the next sourceforge.
- robinhood 8y agoGitLab too, but granted, if you host your own version, you wouldn't lose anything. That being said, GitHub has almost no choice to keep being a good guy with the OSS community. If they lose it, they lose the respect of the developers, and they would lose their paid customers in the process.
- jake_the_third 8y agoAnother point for Gitlab is that it can be forked if the parent company goes bad (e.g libreoffice and oracle). When looking at it with this perspective, widely-used essential projects can live and thrive from one party to the next.
- ravenstine 8y agoSourceforge went the way it did not only because it was always a hornet's nest of ads and viruses, but they allowed bloatware and viruses to be bundled with project downloads. I don't see GitHub ever behaving in that way, though if they did there'd be a mass exodus for sure.