Re: CPE Git Forge Decision

Michal Konecny <mkonecny@xxxxxxxxxx> · Fri, 3 Apr 2020 10:06:26 +0200

    On 02/04/2020 23:51, Björn Persson
      wrote:

      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.

    There is plenty of decentralized open source solutions for plenty of
    services [0]. Unfortunately not for git forge.

    Michal

    [0] - https://fediverse.party/

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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