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@tyil The millions came to github, because it made it cool do share code with git. Its proprietary nature was very much not advertised, and "git is decentralized, you are not locked in" — except when you are. And github filled up actually missing pieces in git. Code review, issuetracking, easy hosting (no need to configure a bare repo — github hides that from you). Irony: there are many people who came there to get independence from proprietary VCS’es and platforms. @blacklight @humanetech

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Its proprietary nature was very much not advertised, and "git is decentralized, you are not locked in" — except when you are.

Yes, as I said, marketing is what drove #Github's growth.

I don't think Github filled up missing pieces, they just did it differently with more marketing. If you know how to git clone, doing a git init --bare isn't really a big achievement anymore. Discussions about the code and issues has been done in mailing lists since forever, it's why patch exists. Github does it differently, and effective marketing made it so people think it's the only way to go now.