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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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