Re:Why GitHub Won
by sanderjd on Monday September 09, 2024 @03:32PM
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Google code did not at all suck, compared to the alternatives - essentially just SourceForge! - at the time it launched.
A lot of what the OP wrote rings true to me, Github obviously hit on a better model, but they clearly had different goals.
I'm sympathetic to people who came into this landscape after Github was already around feeling like google code was a lame also-ran, but as someone who thought "why is everything hosted through this shitty SourceForge website" when I first started using open source, it was a huge improvement.
A lot of what the OP wrote rings true to me, Github obviously hit on a better model, but they clearly had different goals.
I'm sympathetic to people who came into this landscape after Github was already around feeling like google code was a lame also-ran, but as someone who thought "why is everything hosted through this shitty SourceForge website" when I first started using open source, it was a huge improvement.