I think depending upon a single, proprietary web service for everything is foolish. When Github is down, you're out of luck. If Github changes in a way you don't like, you're out of luck.
Jokes aside, using any proprietary web service has the exact same downside. And yet here we all are using Google Apps, Dropbox, GitHub, HipChat, Intercom, and dozens of others. As a team, we found additional web services add exponentially increasing complexity; we eventually needed a platform to keep track of all the platforms we were using. So we back-tracked and went the same route as the Wiredcraft guys, centralizing everything into GitHub.
As a community, instead of advocating turning the clock back (which will never happen: the toothpaste has exited the tube), we should explore ways to satisfy security & reliability concerns while maintaining convenience. Also, you can self-host GitHub.
Of course some companies did try to flog proprietary services and protocols decades ago too, but the users were clued up enough to avoid them and let them die.
I do use github to host my source code currently, but it would be trivial for me to move to a free service such as gitorious, or a gitlab instance, or my own server running cgit or gitweb.
What do you mean you can self-host GitHub? GitHub is not free software.
And that's one part of the freedom. Open source software will live as long as people are interested in it, while proprietary software dies very definitively.
The whole point of Git is that you don't have to surrender control. GitHub is just another BitKeeper. If you really want a Web interface there's Gitorious (which has been around longer than GitHub) and GitLab.
The number of Git-backed Wikis, bug trackers, filesystems, etc. is huge too, judging by the New Packages I see in aptitude every few weeks.
and recently https://rhodecode.com/ which kinda looks like an opensource version of BitBucket.
https://secure.rhodecode.org/rhodecode
cheers
This is true, but only with proprietary software are they unfixable.