I think the model of "keep our core business software proprietary and open source all non-core software" is a good one, and one we should encourage all companies to share.
If they open sourced their core site, how would they make any money?
If they open sourced their core site, how would they make any money?
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)
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.