| Nginx was compelled to move to GitHub [1]. The fact that companies request you to star them on GitHub and the stars can be bought tells you that there is a value in these stars. [2] Now, some astute reader, who thinks the $1 trillion global advertisement market does not influence them, will also claim that they don't care about GitHub stars. Well, that's not how the world works. Fake stars can propel a good project to great. A lot of people will use GitHub stars as a currency to decide the importance of certain FOSS (or even open-core) projects. The real lock-in is in GitHub stars [3]. 1 - https://blog.nginx.org/blog/nginx-open-source-moves-to-githu... 2 - https://finance.biggo.com/podcast/1c9f14e134095b87 3 - https://ashishb.net/tech/github-stars/ |