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by goodpoint 1132 days ago
> No, it's not in a "unique and dominant position". Open source code is freely available online, it's almost trivial to build a bot to scrape OS code from anywhere on the web (GitHub included).

Absolutely wrong. GitHub is doing way more than just hosting code. It hosts bugtrackers, CI and much more. For most FOSS project it's the ONLY place where you can go and submit a bug report.

It's not just a repository, it's a communication tool and refuses to interoperate with other platform.

This is monopoly, just like NPM and Linkedin. Microsoft never changes.