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Another example is the success of DVCS like Git in open-source development (despite GitHub / Gitlab being dominant hosts).
by mathnmusic 8y ago
Another example is the success of DVCS like Git in open-source development (despite GitHub / Gitlab being dominant hosts).
- smacktoward 8y agoThat's a pretty big "despite." It's definitely notable that the first thing people did when decentralized VCSes started to take off was find a way to centralize them.
- mathnmusic 8y agoAnd yet, GitHub hasn't become (and is unlikely to become) the single repository of ALL software in the world. Clearly, there's a counter-balancing force (sovereignty, innovation etc). To call centralization as "efficient" is to ignore these valuables.