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Github? Seriously?! I'm sorry, this just completely blows my mind. I'd understand if you called git innovation (though the real innovation is distributed versi
by 10098 14y ago
Github? Seriously?!
I'm sorry, this just completely blows my mind.
I'd understand if you called git innovation (though the real innovation is distributed version control, and it existed before git, git is just a very good implementation), but calling github "innovation" seriously lowers the bar for that concept.
I mean, I love github, but come on, they aren't even the first ones to come up with the idea. SourceForge existed years before them.
- pbiggar 14y agoIf you think that sourceforge and github are equivalent, you are very mistaken.
- 10098 14y agoWhile they are not equivalent, they serve to achieve similar goals, and it's fair to compare one to the other. Github may be better, but it's not the point. People will be using github to do the same stuff they used to do on SourceForge. Where's the innovation?
- pbiggar 14y agoSourceforge is to GitHub as Friendster is to Facebook. Yes, they are kinda the same idea, but GitHub realized that the social element was key, and managed to create a community around open source the way that sourceforge never did (and, I would argue, didn't even know to do).