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Re:GitHub Raises $250M at $2B Valuation by lifeisstillgood on Wednesday July 29, 2015 @06:43PM (#9972085)
Really? I trust a private repo I am paying for to be there in a few years. Perhaps I am still of the "buying a cd" generation but someone somewhere has to pay for a saas service. It's just more real this way.
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Re:GitHub Raises $250M at $2B Valuation by djacobs on Wednesday July 29, 2015 @06:52PM (#9972137)
True, a paid service is probably more likely to be around in a few years (in general), but does that matter for distributed source control?

I guess if you depend on non-git features, like issues, there's a chance that there's some lock-in. However, most of the ones I use have a migration strategy [0].

[0] http://webapps.stackexchange.com/questions/49729/how-can-i-i...

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Re:GitHub Raises $250M at $2B Valuation by TillE on Wednesday July 29, 2015 @07:28PM (#9972326)
The beauty of DVCS is that it really doesn't matter if your "main" repository suddenly vanishes. As long as you've got it checked out locally, just push it somewhere else.
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Re:GitHub Raises $250M at $2B Valuation by lifeisstillgood on Thursday July 30, 2015 @01:35PM (#9976556)
The main point is that I have to pay someone - otherwise hosting and indeed it seems every web service out there is running on the Greater Fool Theory.
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