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Every monopoly is bad. GitHub is becoming one. I don't think it's a good move, as well as Google abandoning Google Code.
by niutech 12y ago
Every monopoly is bad. GitHub is becoming one. I don't think it's a good move, as well as Google abandoning Google Code.
- munificent 12y agoThere's always BitBucket. The transition cost for moving from GitHub to a competitor is quite low and given how deeply socially oriented the GitHub user base is, if GitHub starts turning people off, the community can and will move very quickly. Look how fast Friendster and then MySpace died.
- scott_karana 12y agoCan you migrate current and past Github Issues to Bitbucket? Because if you can't, that could be a big deal for many projects.
- bpicolo 12y agoGithub is less of a monopoly from the perspective of people using it for enterprise. Open source, sure.
- amadeusw 12y agoThat's what I thought until I read Peter Thiel's "Zero to One" where he makes an interesting argument that a monopoly allows a company to innovate, and patent system helps innovative monopolies to exist. I wouldn't extend Thiel's argument into other fields than computer science, though cough telephone carriers cough cable tv