Paul Frields wrote: > That statement rings hollow for me, when Github is arguably the single > biggest vendor of open source in the world, no part of itself is open > source, and thanks to its pervasiveness, open source has won the war > of how development should work. Github shows that *proprietary centralized services* are winning the war of how development should work. Gitlab is a smaller, competing, proprietary centralized service. This trend is not in any way unique to software development. Pretty much everything is being consolidated into centralized services governed by a small number of corporate behemoths. Every new thing is launched as a proprietary service that captures the market before anyone has a chance to develop a decentralized competitor. Even those decentralized networks that have existed since the Internet was young are now degenerating into centralized services. The smaller players will continue to be bought by bigger competitors until there are only one or two services in the world for doing whatever you want to do. I speak only for myself but it seems to me that concern over this ongoing centralization is why people are objecting to moving to Github or Gitlab. Björn Persson
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