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Pierre-Yves Lapersonne@programming.dev to Programming@programming.dev · 24 hours ago

How GitHub monopoly is destroying the open source ecosystem

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How GitHub monopoly is destroying the open source ecosystem

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Pierre-Yves Lapersonne@programming.dev to Programming@programming.dev · 24 hours ago
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How Github monopoly is destroying the open source ecosystem par Ploum - Lionel Dricot.
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    23 hours ago

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

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      Google “network effect”

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        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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          Codeberg has free CI if your project has a FOSS license and a readme: https://codeberg.org/Codeberg-e.V./requests#woodpecker-ci

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

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      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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