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> Yes, of course we can all move our repos to Bitbucket or wherever, but ... > It won't be a minor inconvenience if Github goes away. Yeah, I don't think you

> Yes, of course we can all move our repos to Bitbucket or wherever, but ... > It won't be a minor inconvenience if Github goes away. Yeah, I don't think you made a very good case for your argument there. Some companies are completely dependent on Windows as their staff or software can't work with anything other than Windows. Not only won't it be a minor inconvenience, it would be an existential crisis for the company if they couldn't use Windows. Github has done a lot for the internet. But I'm pretty sure we can live without it. There are many other competing services out there. I would say the best thing about Github is the fact that lots of big open source projects are hosted there. If they all moved to Bitbucket, would it be that big of a deal for everyone? Some people would miss some features that were only available on Github. Most people just need a git:// URL to push and pull from.

ilaksh 13y ago
Sure. It will be no big deal if 50,000 companies have no source code repository next week and have to switch to Bitbucket immediately before they can continue working. Guess those VCs who were throwing money at github had no idea what they were doing. There was no big reason for Github to exist in the first place. Git is distributed anyway. People could always just fire up their own servers for repo hosting. LOL. Github is so obviously critical and more importantly quite relevant I can't believe that I am actually arguing about it. Windows is a dinosaur.
- xtrumanx 13y ago
  I'm going to give you the benefit of the doubt for minute and reply to your comment. If 50,000 companies had no source code repository next week and had to switch to Bitbucket, it would be a very big deal. That wasn't what I was arguing. I was refuting your idea that companies are dependent on Github. That isn't the case. If you took any tool away from 50,000 companies overnight it would be a big deal. That doesn't make those tools important. Take away all the desks and chairs from 50,000 companies and switch them to standing desks immediately before they can continue working and it would be a big deal. Are desks and chairs as important as your Github account? If you answer yes to this question, just stop reading at this point. If not, then you should see how ridiculous your earlier argument was. Github has a ton of features, I don't know how many of them you use but I personally just download repos. That's about it. That's the central feature of Github. Bitbucket has that feature. If a project moved from Github to Bitbucket, it wouldn't make a difference to me at all. I imagine my situation is not unique. That was my argument. I hope I've made myself clear this time. Not sure what your "Windows is a dinosaur" remark was about. Do you deny the existence of companies that are completely dependent on Windows? P.S. Having a whole sentence that consists of LOL is just extremely weird and out of place here at HN.

ilaksh 13y ago

Sure. It will be no big deal if 50,000 companies have no source code repository next week and have to switch to Bitbucket immediately before they can continue working. Guess those VCs who were throwing money at github had no idea what they were doing. There was no big reason for Github to exist in the first place. Git is distributed anyway. People could always just fire up their own servers for repo hosting. LOL. Github is so obviously critical and more importantly quite relevant I can't believe that I am actually arguing about it. Windows is a dinosaur.

xtrumanx 13y ago
I'm going to give you the benefit of the doubt for minute and reply to your comment. If 50,000 companies had no source code repository next week and had to switch to Bitbucket, it would be a very big deal. That wasn't what I was arguing. I was refuting your idea that companies are dependent on Github. That isn't the case. If you took any tool away from 50,000 companies overnight it would be a big deal. That doesn't make those tools important. Take away all the desks and chairs from 50,000 companies and switch them to standing desks immediately before they can continue working and it would be a big deal. Are desks and chairs as important as your Github account? If you answer yes to this question, just stop reading at this point. If not, then you should see how ridiculous your earlier argument was. Github has a ton of features, I don't know how many of them you use but I personally just download repos. That's about it. That's the central feature of Github. Bitbucket has that feature. If a project moved from Github to Bitbucket, it wouldn't make a difference to me at all. I imagine my situation is not unique. That was my argument. I hope I've made myself clear this time. Not sure what your "Windows is a dinosaur" remark was about. Do you deny the existence of companies that are completely dependent on Windows? P.S. Having a whole sentence that consists of LOL is just extremely weird and out of place here at HN.