On Friday, 5 September 2014 at 12:24:02 UTC, Nameless wrote:
It is nothing unique for GitHUb I can blame them for though -
this is how absolute majority of web services is built these
days and I don't see it changing without any government
regulations. Does mean I must like it.
Government control would just mean controlled by corruption.
The solution needs to be technological: a distributed github. I
have no idea how to do that but I'm sure it's possible. Until
something like that gets implemented, it seems to me that
"github or GO" (without the "TF" and with a rationale) is the
best option. It won't scale to force core contributors to
collect patches from services x, y and z.
Decentralized services on their own won't change anything here
because they won't be able to compete with intrusive ones.
Concept of ecosystem lock-in didn't become so popular because of
some evil mastermind behind it - it is simply most efficient and
advantageous commercial strategy if allowed. This is why I refer
to government control - situation is not fundamentally different
from old-school monopolies. It is similarly very effective
approach you have no reason to not use as a corporation but very
harmful for society as a whole in the long term -> regulated by
the government. Of course monopoly regulations don't work that
well either because of corruption but at least there is some
expectation among masses about it. Ecosystem lock-in, quite the
contrary, is viewed as totally legit and even good.
