I don't see much difference between a comment on Reddit/HN and a response article, except that the response article is platform-agnostic and (sometimes) more thoughtfully assembled.
because its practically a long comment on the original. If it has to be platform agnostic with formatting, then that is why comments are allowed to have links to other sites.
Otherwise we really should all start writing response articles and post those instead of comments, because there are only positives yeah? 70 comments for this post alone, all articles so people can use their own variant of formatting languages or whatever
Yes, a business focused on the things that make it money. Thats the purpose and the OP is not wrong on that. What he is missing is the immense power the open source community as whole has. They can boycott github and turn it into a ghost town in a manner of months. Github will then lose part of the appeal it sells to enterprise customers.
> They can boycott github and turn it into a ghost town in a manner of months.
The last paragraph in the OP rhetorically mocks that idea. Boycotting GitHub would negatively impact said projects since there is no competitior as robust, which is a worse outcome.
Indeed. Though it would not take that much convincing to have those people turn gitlab into what they want and host it themselves with a container based image. Plus they could simulate the social aspect of github by using a general index of projects.
Stars can also be ported over. You could even go one step further and create star similar to reddit's "gold". A "gold" star would contribute to the development of the project.