Pierre-Yves Lapersonne@programming.dev to Programming@programming.dev · 10 hours agoHow GitHub monopoly is destroying the open source ecosystemploum.netexternal-linkmessage-square9fedilinkarrow-up155arrow-down13 cross-posted to: [email protected]
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minus-squareirelephant [he/him]@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkarrow-up2·3 hours agoGoogle “network effect”
minus-squareFizzyOrange@programming.devlinkfedilinkarrow-up2·55 minutes agoRelatively 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.
Google “network effect”
Relatively minor for source code forges.
The reasons everyone uses GitHub:
If anyone can ever compete with that then I doubt network effects will keep people there.