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How GitHub monopoly is destroying the open source ecosystem (ploum.net)
submitted 9 months ago by to c/programming@programming.dev
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[–] 32 points 9 months ago (8 children)

PSA: GitHub does not have a monopoly, you are free to host your stuff elsewhere (or yourself)

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  • [–] 6 points 9 months ago (5 children)

    Relatively minor for source code forges.

    The reasons everyone uses GitHub:

    • Free, even for private repos. No ads.
    • Free CI - this is huge. Nobody else does this because it costs Microsoft around $100m/year to provide.
    • It's quite good.

    If anyone can ever compete with that then I doubt network effects will keep people there.

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  • [–] 2 points 9 months ago (3 children)

    They're clearly not going to be able to afford $100m/year in free CI.

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  • [–] 4 points 9 months ago (2 children)

    Which is one of the reasons behind github's network effect.

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  • [–] 3 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

    Yes, and for most of us it's easy to do so, but I'm not going to explain a noob how to add new repositories. I mean, I did, and I will do in the future, but it's not my favorite task to do.

    I realized my comment was a bit ambiguous. I meant repositories like for Maven, NPM, or package managers. Having stuff on GitHub makes it a lot easier.

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