Yeah, fast internet helps a lot, but being able to grab open source code, work on it, and then push in changes with something better than an email of diffs is c

Yeah, fast internet helps a lot, but being able to grab open source code, work on it, and then push in changes with something better than an email of diffs is certainly nice. The technology of pull requests/cloning has a lot of advantages when you want code to cross organizational boundaries.