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Re:Ask HN: Good alternative to Gmail? by bman on Wednesday August 11, 2010 @03:05PM (#1595682)
If github were open source i might consider it as well but as it isnt i am avoiding product lockin by using indefero, setup was easy and its basically a git version of google code so its familiar for most users.
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Re:Ask HN: Good alternative to Gmail? by xiongchiamiov on Wednesday August 11, 2010 @07:22PM (#1596563)
The concept of distributed version control makes vendor lockin on a product like GitHub almost a moot point. For instance, see the _why mirror: http://github.com/whymirror - while not the same situation, it is similar.

GitHub's issues and wiki pages are not included in your repository, although I know the issues have a very nice API (I'm not sure about the wiki).

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Re:Ask HN: Good alternative to Gmail? by bman on Friday August 13, 2010 @09:13AM (#1600799)
Software management via git isnt locked in i am referring to the issues, wiki and project management pieces.
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Re:Ask HN: Good alternative to Gmail? by duck on Wednesday August 11, 2010 @04:44PM (#1596045)
If github were open source

How would that really matter?

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