[the_duke]

Agreed.

Considering the amazing value Github provides for the IT world, I really don't care if they release their code.

Isn't it enought that they have revolutionized development workflows, project hosting and made contributing and collaborating so much easiert?

(to be clear, GH wasn't the first site of it's kind, but the network effect of having one site that that basically every developer uses daily -and be it just via one of the documentation site on GH pages- really was revolutionary)

[fps]

I use github every day for professional and personal projects, and typically like what they've done, but Sourceforge.net was the github of the early 2000's, where almost every developer had an account and where you could get free development and distribution tools for your project. Look at what it is now (or was before it was re-opened a few months ago.) People's open source projects were being leveraged to push malware on unsuspecting users. We might not think it's so great to have all this centralized code storage in a few more years when the new hotness replaces github and everyone's zombie products are being used maliciously again.

[the_duke]

Mhm, I used Sourceforge from time to time back then.

But I remember it as always clumsy (even before they got bought and started the ad craziness), and only a small subset of projects was on Sourceforge, in my experience at least.