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Re:Ask HN: My GitHub account got suspended without any notice by jedimastert on Tuesday July 14, 2020 @12:05PM (#23833572)
I think that many people confuse "de facto standard" with monopoly. There are certainly other services that can do most if not all of the things Github does, it just doesn't have the audience.

Does GitHub do anything to actively prohibit the use of it's competitors?

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Re:Ask HN: My GitHub account got suspended without any notice by smoe on Tuesday July 14, 2020 @12:41PM (#23834199)
Think for private repos gitlab has been a viable and fairly popular alternative for a long time.

I reckon for open source the "de facto standard" plays a much bigger role, because of the user expectation to find projects on Github.

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