If you've ever run your own git server (and I do), you have to pretty much setup something like gitosis or other solutions to manage the new projects....or you

If you've ever run your own git server (and I do), you have to pretty much setup something like gitosis or other solutions to manage the new projects....or you have to ssh in to make new projects. I see absolutely no more than an afternoon's work to take people's work and move to a completely different remote central repo if github were to vanish from the internet one day. The central node is a lot easier. git is not a source control system. It is a system for making a source control system. For many people, the centralized system is great.