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For one thing because Git is open source, and who would expect a profitable open source company to attempt to commercialize an html5 text editor?

vezzy-fnord 13y ago
GitHub itself is proprietary. Don't confuse the DVCS with the software hosting service that made it popular.
- bayesianhorse 13y ago
  GitHub is based around open source software. Ruby on Rails, Git, various other tools in deployments. Working inside open source browsers mostly. Breathing the open source community on its site. For me, GitHub is an open source company even if they don't open source all of their code... I don't equate git with github, I just don't like bloating my posts with too much nitpicking.
  - vezzy-fnord 13y ago
    A ton of companies are based around open source software. That's kind of the beauty of it. It has enabled the proliferation of businesses and has sped up innovation. But by your logic, the NSA must be an open source government agency. After all, the Snowden leaks revealed that their technology (including XKeyscore) is built on open source software. "Working inside open source browsers mostly." Every website and web application is open source now? If you can find a way to arbitrarily lift server-side code from any web application, you'd be hailed as the next technological messiah. No, GitHub using open source software does not make their platform open source. They do give back to an extent, sure. But that's hardly anything to celebrate by itself.
    - bayesianhorse 13y ago
      I did not say their platform is open source. I did say instead that the character of their main business puts them firmly in the open source space. Not even counting their own github account with open sourced software they created...
  - rimantas 13y ago
    And Ruby on Rails was born inside the closed source project which remains closed source.
zeckalpha 13y ago
Git is not GitHub.
- Pacabel 13y ago
  For a lot of Git and GitHub users, that distinction is of minimal importance.

vezzy-fnord 13y ago

GitHub itself is proprietary. Don't confuse the DVCS with the software hosting service that made it popular.

bayesianhorse 13y ago
GitHub is based around open source software. Ruby on Rails, Git, various other tools in deployments. Working inside open source browsers mostly. Breathing the open source community on its site. For me, GitHub is an open source company even if they don't open source all of their code... I don't equate git with github, I just don't like bloating my posts with too much nitpicking.
- vezzy-fnord 13y ago
  A ton of companies are based around open source software. That's kind of the beauty of it. It has enabled the proliferation of businesses and has sped up innovation. But by your logic, the NSA must be an open source government agency. After all, the Snowden leaks revealed that their technology (including XKeyscore) is built on open source software. "Working inside open source browsers mostly." Every website and web application is open source now? If you can find a way to arbitrarily lift server-side code from any web application, you'd be hailed as the next technological messiah. No, GitHub using open source software does not make their platform open source. They do give back to an extent, sure. But that's hardly anything to celebrate by itself.
  - bayesianhorse 13y ago
    I did not say their platform is open source. I did say instead that the character of their main business puts them firmly in the open source space. Not even counting their own github account with open sourced software they created...
- rimantas 13y ago
  And Ruby on Rails was born inside the closed source project which remains closed source.

zeckalpha 13y ago

Git is not GitHub.

Pacabel 13y ago
For a lot of Git and GitHub users, that distinction is of minimal importance.