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Re:RMS: GitHub has done terrible harm to our community by madiathomas on Thursday November 28, 2019 @03:13AM (#21655503)
GitHub probably did more good for the FOSS community than any other project I can think of. Before GitHub, it was so difficult to share code. Solutions available weren't anywhere close. I don't understand why he wants every little piece of software to be open sourced. GitHub was attractive to investors because it had closed source projects that have to pay in order to use it. I don't see how GitHub was going to succeed if they were purely open source and no-one was paying to use it. Those proprietary projects that he so hates are the ones who were keeping the lights on. They are the ones which were giving Investors hope than GitHub will make lots of money in future and they must invest more.
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Re:RMS: GitHub has done terrible harm to our community by viraptor on Thursday November 28, 2019 @05:39AM (#21656141)
Both google code and sourceforge existed before GitHub. I'd say the experience wasn't streamlined for collaboration like today, but it was definitely easy to share code if you choose to.

GitHub mainly flipped the default view from "project description, forums, and downloads" to "code" which was the massive change.

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Re:RMS: GitHub has done terrible harm to our community by thethrowboat on Thursday November 28, 2019 @03:39AM (#21655593)
If you wanted to use that little piece of code, wouldn't it be better if it was open source? I remember when you could only get exe and projects didnt even think of sharing the code, even if it was just some small project.
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Re:RMS: GitHub has done terrible harm to our community by madiathomas on Thursday November 28, 2019 @07:28AM (#21656764)
If it is a library, I will prefer an open source one, but if it is some software, I don't mind even when it is closed source.
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