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They're already locked in. See comments in this thread "I find myself frustrated any time I run into an open source project whose git repo is not on github." a
by njharman 15y ago
They're already locked in.
See comments in this thread "I find myself frustrated any time I run into an open source project whose git repo is not on github." and elsewhere.
Many developers at work don't know how, don't want to learn, and don't want to use any system that's not github.
Github has such a huge first to market advantage, it is/will be extremely hard for better solutions to ever get noticed.
paypal, ebay, (in some peoples opinion gmail and gsearch) all demonstrate this same effect.
- drivebyacct2 15y ago>Many developers at work don't know how, don't want to learn, and don't want to use any system that's not github. Huh? What on earth do you mean? You mean that they can't figure out that instead of going to the GitHub repo, copy and pasting into `git clone something.github.com` they need to clone a different URL? Sounds like your fellow employees are... uh... not that stellar.
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- njharman 15y agoThey don't want to learn or use; svn, atlassian, bit bucket, etc. cause they are mentally locked into github
- kisielk 15y agoThe same argument could have been used for SourceForge back in its heyday. Times change.
- njharman 15y agoIt took long time and revolutionary tool, git, to disobey then. And yes incumbents fall, it just takes way more than Only being better.
- patrickk 15y agoWhether first mover advantage exists at all is extremely debatable. Those who coined the phrase originally have backed away from it: http://steveblank.com/2010/10/04/why-pioneers-are-the-ones-with-the-arrows-in-their-backs/ http://steveblank.com/2010/10/04/why-pioneers-are-the-ones-w...