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How fitting that one of the links you've posted is unavailable at the moment due to the very downtime that caused this discussion! Evidence of our over-reliance

• csense 14y ago
  Here I took it as evidence of Github's generous-to-the-point-of-being-ridiculously-foolish attitude toward their customers: They'll even give free public Git hosting to products that directly compete with their core business at a lower price point (free)! Even if you Do No Evil (R), some people will still complain about you. That being said, Git hosting would be better for everyone if Github had a bigger competitor in their niche.
  • zalew 14y ago
    > They'll even give free public Git hosting to products that directly compete with their core business at a lower price point (free)! unless you are providing paid accounts and expensive enterprise solutions with support, you are not competing with them in any way.
    • csense 14y ago
      > unless you are providing paid accounts and expensive enterprise solutions with support, you are not competing with them in any way. Yes, you are. If you would have bought their product (paid Git hosting), but you used somebody else's product instead (Gitolite), then that other product (Gitolite) is competing with Github for your business. I agree that there is a subset of the market that (a) won't or can't figure out Git hosting on their own, or (b) decides that paying for a Github account will actually be less expensive. But I never said that Gitolite will ever replace Github.