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This stuff doesn’t matter ... it really boils down to the extreme FOSS ideological stance. Fact is GitHub is the site that won this winner take all race. If yo
by hguhghuff 8y ago
This stuff doesn’t matter ... it really boils down to the extreme FOSS ideological stance.
Fact is GitHub is the site that won this winner take all race. If you put your open source project anywhere else you do your project and it’s users a disservice. Everyone knows and is familiar with github and uses it every day ... taking your project elsewhere takes it out of this daily workflow.
And frankly who cares if GitHub itself is not open source... honestly it really doesn’t matter in any meaningful practical way, it matters only from an ideological standpoint.
I like it that the modern world of OSS isn’t controlled by the extreme ideology because these people tend to choose worse options to get the job done because that worse option meets an ideological position.
- leereeves 8y agoThe commercial option tends to look like the better option at first, because companies invest a lot of money upfront to polish the product and buy market share by giving the product away. Later, when the company is fully grown, customers are locked-in, and investors want to cash out, the commercial option often becomes the worse option.
- tonyedgecombe 8y agoExcept GitHub has become freer since Microsoft bought it, you can now have unlimited private repos for no cost.
- ksaj 8y agoThis was a choice that kept me on board without panicking and jumping ship like many others. I'm pretty comfortable with github, and find its search engine options and overall site responsiveness (speed) to literally quash any chance of me joining the fleeing masses. The private repos was a very happy addition.
- ksaj 8y agoOut of curiosity, how does this lock-in manifest itself? I'm pretty sure all I'd have to do to move to a competitor is upload my local directories to that site. Is it the loss of revision history, or ??
- enriquto 8y ago> I like it that the modern world of OSS isn’t controlled by the extreme ideology because these people tend to choose worse options to get the job done because that worse option meets an ideological position. I dislike it for the very same reason. A blind pragmaticism leads to a worse world for everybody. I would prefer if developers were more conscious (and yes, ideological) of their fundamental role in the future of general-purpose computing.
- reda-alaoui 8y agoIdeologies also lead to religious wars, WWII, cold war and list goes on.
- enriquto 8y agoalright, but completely offtopic for this subject?