"distributed tools for distributed data"
Customers fear vendor lock-in, so an open platform/ecosystem for git could flourish, like java. Hopefully they'll have a better business model for it than Sun did. Maybe amazon's?
Customers fear vendor lock-in, so an open platform/ecosystem for git could flourish, like java. Hopefully they'll have a better business model for it than Sun did. Maybe amazon's?
The fact that so much of the world's private source code is on a single public website (GitHub), which has repeatedly been hacked via relatively easy exploits, is pretty frightening to me.
Not sure how that translates as a business model, as no one owns git (like Oracle owned oracle). However, although Sun didn't make money from java, everyone else did - so there is a business model, just as a user of git, not an owner. e.g. reporting tools based on git; CI tools, code quality tools.
So maybe the answer is to just to treat git as infrastructure, for the app you sell, as opposed to trying to make money from the infrastructure itself. Linux is a similar product.