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I think that many people confuse "de facto standard" with monopoly. There are certainly other services that can do most if not all of the things Github does, it
by jedimastert 6y ago
I think that many people confuse "de facto standard" with monopoly. There are certainly other services that can do most if not all of the things Github does, it just doesn't have the audience.
Does GitHub do anything to actively prohibit the use of it's competitors?
- smoe 6y agoThink for private repos gitlab has been a viable and fairly popular alternative for a long time. I reckon for open source the "de facto standard" plays a much bigger role, because of the user expectation to find projects on Github.