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I saw Github's code as a consultants years ago, and I always thought it was crazy that they would ship the whole thing to us. But then I thought, how many emplo
by qgrgergfqgfev 6y ago
I saw Github's code as a consultants years ago, and I always thought it was crazy that they would ship the whole thing to us. But then I thought, how many employees do they have? Probably enough that security should not rely on the secrecy of the code anymore.
- alpb 6y agoI think the main concern would be the intellectual property around the large-scale distributed system which is storing billions of lines of code in a single system. Implementing git object storage is still hard (e.g. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virtual_File_System_for_Git https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virtual_File_System_for_Git). Though, that's probably not what they use in the enterprise edition, so maybe they aren't as worried.
- speedgoose 6y agoI guess it's difficult and expensive to deploy a ruby on rails application on premise without giving some kind of source code.
- 0xdeadb00f 6y agoIf that is the case then why don't they open source it all?
- qgrgergfqgfev 6y agowhat would be the point?