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Is centralization of open source a good thing for the world or not? This thread seems to be overwhelmingly positive. And in the end we all will be critisizing i
by yes_man 7y ago
Is centralization of open source a good thing for the world or not? This thread seems to be overwhelmingly positive. And in the end we all will be critisizing it if all package repositories will be handled by a single entity. And that entity that is being applauded here in this case happens to be the most valuable corporation in the world right now. Healthy skepticism seems to be a disappearing attribute in the tech world
- ilaksh 7y agoI suspect part of it is the Microsoft fanboy effect. Also, people strangely do not seem to be aware of the potential of truly decentralized p2p technologies to provide alternatives.
- neurotrace 7y agoSeriously. I love Github but I don't know how to feel about a megacorp becoming the de facto source for packages in the open source ecosystem. It could be great but many of us thought that consolidating all of our social activities under the Facebook umbrella was going to be great
- rich-tea 7y agoAs usual it will take a disaster for people to realise it was a bad idea. Microsoft tried to destroy Linux in the past. Literally. Linux is what gave us git in the first place, and docker, and so much technology that we love today. Oh how quickly the past is forgotten when convenience is on the table.
- frizkie 7y agoWhat about GitHub makes people more likely to use Windows? Or less likely to use Linux?