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GitHub may be a good service, but THEY ARE PROPRIETARY. Thus, it is absurd to talk about them as important proponents of Open Source without mentioning this hyp
by quadrangle 13y ago
GitHub may be a good service, but THEY ARE PROPRIETARY. Thus, it is absurd to talk about them as important proponents of Open Source without mentioning this hypocrisy.
- GuiA 13y agoNot completely contradicting you, but just pointing out- they've open sourced a lot of stuff: https://github.com/github https://github.com/github
- hackula1 13y agoI would go so far as to say that MOST open source contributions come from developers and companies that also work on proprietary systems. I really do not see a problem with this. There are legitimate business, legal, security, and technical reasons for this. Personally, I open source whenever I can, but much of the work I do would not be feasible in an open source model (highly custom systems, competitive advantage, legal restrictions on code or data, code that would be of little value for anyone but me and my clients, etc.).
- unknownian 13y agoThat is true, but they do that so they can continue to serve their business easily. Would you rather them be open source and take away all the free hosting? Furthermore, they are easily the best product in their category. If you want an open source Git Service, use gitorious or something.