Re:GitHub Enterprise is now free through Microsoft for Startups
by chungy on Thursday February 13, 2020 @03:51PM
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The CLI is itself open source. Surely it can't be a huge barrier for competing software (GitLab, Gitea, etc) to implement its API.
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Re:GitHub Enterprise is now free through Microsoft for Startups
by dublinben on Thursday February 13, 2020 @04:53PM
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It's still an open point of contention whether an API can be copyrighted. There's obvious benefits to GitHub to encourage the use of a 'gh' command over the 'git' command.
Re:GitHub Enterprise is now free through Microsoft for Startups
by rahuldottech on Thursday February 13, 2020 @04:46PM
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How can you say that? It's definitely a significant barrier.
"Open source" is often used to appear more "friendly" to outsiders. Something can be open source and still be used to lock people into a particular environment. Case in point: Chromium, Android, etc.