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* This falls under very specific genre of Hacker News comment that has always struck me as profoundly uninteresting. * Not sure why you had to lead with an irr
by emilsedgh 7y ago
* This falls under very specific genre of Hacker News comment that has always struck me as profoundly uninteresting. *
Not sure why you had to lead with an irrelevant comment like that as the rest of your comment has interesting counter arguments.
I think Github did make development easier, but the fact that it's close source and now owned by Microsoft gives me an uneasy feeling.
With that being said, the only thing that does make it ok is the fact that Git is decentralized.
If Github was an svn host I definitely wouldn't have been ok with it or hosted anything FOSS on it.
- evv 7y ago> Git is decentralized. If Github was an svn host I definitely wouldn't have been ok with it or hosted anything FOSS on it. The most sticky part of Github is the social network that lives in issues, pull requests, and repository permissions. This is all entirely centralized, and it is scary how heavily the community relies on it. So in practice, results in just as closed of a system as SVN. And it doesn't matter if you're "ok with it". GH is where all the people and projects are. If you want to participate, you have no choice.