Pierre-Yves Lapersonne@programming.dev to Programming@programming.dev · 24 hours agoHow GitHub monopoly is destroying the open source ecosystemploum.netexternal-linkmessage-square13fedilinkarrow-up178 cross-posted to: opensource@lemmy.mlopensource@programming.dev
arrow-up178external-linkHow GitHub monopoly is destroying the open source ecosystemploum.netPierre-Yves Lapersonne@programming.dev to Programming@programming.dev · 24 hours agomessage-square13fedilink cross-posted to: opensource@lemmy.mlopensource@programming.dev
minus-squareirelephant [he/him]@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkarrow-up4·17 hours agoGoogle “network effect”
minus-squareFizzyOrange@programming.devlinkfedilinkarrow-up5·15 hours 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.
minus-squareirelephant [he/him]@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkarrow-up9·14 hours agoCodeberg has free CI if your project has a FOSS license and a readme: https://codeberg.org/Codeberg-e.V./requests#woodpecker-ci
minus-squareFizzyOrange@programming.devlinkfedilinkarrow-up3·13 hours agoThey’re clearly not going to be able to afford $100m/year in free CI.
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.
Codeberg has free CI if your project has a FOSS license and a readme: https://codeberg.org/Codeberg-e.V./requests#woodpecker-ci
They’re clearly not going to be able to afford $100m/year in free CI.