GitHub supports open source provisions in National Defense Authorization Act
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If you believe in open source so much, why is Github a closed-source product?
Many businesses, particularly SaaS businesses, have managed to be hugely profitable while making their code open source, so I don't accept the argument there.
And considering that the choices of many open source projects to host there and standardize on the Github ecosystem were a big factor in enabling GH to become what they are today, at some point I would feel an obligation.
It's their business and they can run it how they see fit, but it's something that has always bothered me.
The limitation for them is obviously their enterprise offerings, which would be far less profitable if businesses could just roll their own GitHub instance.
I thought about it and couldn't come up with many SaaS companies that are open-source. Especially not with the same business model as GitHub.
I too would love an open-source version, but for the reasons above I doubt it will happen.
EDIT: also, Git is completely open source, and all of the data stored on GitHub can be exported. A lot of other tools even import data directly from GitHub. There's literally nothing stopping people from moving except that they want to use it.
Not OP, but it does seem a little hypocritical to demand others completely open source their projects while still holding onto proprietary software.