Howdy all,
I've never been much of a user of Git, but I appreciate that the most
popular DVCS is free software.
The worrying part is that most people who *say* they're using Git are
using Github. I have heard rumblings that Github is problematic: it's
non-free compared to Git being free, it's centralised where Git is
federated, it requires users to use protocols that are incompatible with
Git. In short, it undermines and defeats most of the benefits of a
federated free-software tool.
Here is an article by someone who has decided after a long usage to
switch from Github, for these reasons and more.
The problem is that github is most emphatically not git. If a person
using git (and therefore send-email) wants to collaborate with
someone using github, one of the two of them has to give in and use
an interface they deliberately decided not to use. There’s no way
around it: github does not supplement git, github replaces git.
Deciding whether to use github versus just git is an either/or
proposition.
Two products with nearly identical functionality: one is
open-source, and the other is closed-source and depends on the
other. Not a hard choice.
<URL:http://bytbox.net/blog/2012/08/leaving-github.html>
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Ben Finney
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