I've worked at companies that store all their source code in private github repos.
And I think - is github impossible to hack?
Will the day come when github is wide open and all that secret source gets drained out?
And I think - is github impossible to hack?
Will the day come when github is wide open and all that secret source gets drained out?
Turns out, you need more than source code to run a business. You need customers, markets & relationships. You need trust. You need a sales team. That's the real thing you should be worried about being stolen. Your goddamn sales team. Obviously the developers would be worried about the code base (and they should be) but at scale it's not the end of the world if some code gets out. Losing your best sales person & all their prospects would be much more catastrophic for your business.
Smaller players, especially threats to OpenAI and whoever else could easily get squashed in such a scenario.
Most software companies' "value" (liquidatable assets) depend almost exclusively on their IP, as embodied in their patent portfolio and their source-code. Their people may be more valuable, but people can't be traded or used as collateral.
It’s also a security risk having your source code leaked.
Coca Cola’s empire surely isn’t dependent on Coke’s recipe, yet they’re still keeping it a secret. Same goes for the vast majority of for-profit organizations who do not want their core product’s recipe exposed, for a variety of reasons.
I think it's a more "How much will it cost to host repositories that are at less of a risk than GitHub".