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> But by the same token, git alone isn't sufficient to produce the social coding phenomenon of github. How do you know that? Especially so, given that tons of
by zAy0LfpBZLC8mAC 8y ago
> But by the same token, git alone isn't sufficient to produce the social coding phenomenon of github.
How do you know that? Especially so, given that tons of "social coding" happened long before github was a thing?
- wwarner 8y agoI guess we don't agree on what "tons" means. I don't remember searching through millions of projects on source forge.
- zAy0LfpBZLC8mAC 8y agoSo, the fact that people didn't stop producing new software when github was created is because github was created? Or the fact that there are more software developers in the world today than there were when github was created wouldn't have happened without github? Or is it that because sourceforge wasn't a quasi-monopoly, therefore everything that was not on sourceforge didn't exist? Or what exactly is your point?
- aphistic 8y agoSourceforge was definitely a "quasi-monopoly". If you weren't on Sourceforge you had a much harder time gaining credibility. There were also other projects that didn't use Sourceforge just like there are projects that don't use GitHub now.