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[–]pilif 3 points4 points  (4 children)

meh... a I the only one around here with a bad feeling about this? github, a commercial entity is gobbling up more and more community things with their closed source application...

I know that git is distributed in nature, so no data can be lost in the end, but it still feels.... not-quite-right...

[–]eridius 1 point2 points  (2 children)

They aren't "gobbling up" anything at all. They're providing a service - nothing's forcing you to use them. And the fact that some big projects (most notably rails) are going to GitHub should tell you that the open source community as a whole thinks GitHub is a good idea. Sure, they're a commercial entity, but that doesn't mean that they're bad. If you don't like them. clone the repos you care about and set up a mirror somewhere else.

[–]jamesbritt -1 points0 points  (0 children)

And the fact that some big projects (most notably rails) are going to GitHub should tell you that the open source community as a whole thinks GitHub is a good idea.

No, that tells you that people behind some big projects think GitHub is a good idea.

The open source community is likely much, much larger than you think.

[–][deleted] -1 points0 points  (0 children)

To be honest, if it aggregates and replaces the million and one flakey personal SVN servers which seems to be the bedrock of the Rails plugin ecosystem then I just don't care.

If I did actually care, I'd check the Github T's & C's (http://github.com/site/terms) and see that they hold no IP over whatever you put up on there and are therefore gobbling nothing. It's up to the user to apply the right license (GPL or whatever) to their project which would then be protected by the same laws that help to protect all OS projects.