> the answer for the vast, vast, vast majority of people is no, for the vast vast majority of use cases. With GitHub being the top platform for sharing source

> the answer for the vast, vast, vast majority of people is no, for the vast vast majority of use cases. With GitHub being the top platform for sharing source code and as the top choice for the basket of all our eggs, I'd wager we need DVCSs more than people need or appreciate today. And that's just considering how often GitHub is down today. If we start to emphasize with people who have really shitty internet connections (which is a larger part of the world than you seem to think), we can start to understand why it's really useful to be able to share our code with our co-workers on our local network without having to rely on terrible, minimum 5s latency connections to US companies who basically don't care about you.