- Champion a hard to use VCS which to its credit is distributed
- Make everyone dependent on all the centralized features of your software to use Git[1][2]
- Now you have a de facto centralized, hard to use VCS with thousands of SO questions like “my code won’t commit to the GitHub”
- Every time you go down a hundreds-of-comments post is posted on HN
How to get bought for a ton of cash by a tech mega corporation.
[1] Of course an exaggeration. Everyone can use it in a distributed way or mirror. The problem occurs when you’re on a team and everyone else doesn’t know how to.
[2] I’m pretty sure that even the contributors to the Git project rely on the GitHub CI since they can’t run all tests locally.
- Make everyone dependent on all the centralized features of your software to use Git[1][2]
- Now you have a de facto centralized, hard to use VCS with thousands of SO questions like “my code won’t commit to the GitHub”
- Every time you go down a hundreds-of-comments post is posted on HN
How to get bought for a ton of cash by a tech mega corporation.
[1] Of course an exaggeration. Everyone can use it in a distributed way or mirror. The problem occurs when you’re on a team and everyone else doesn’t know how to.
[2] I’m pretty sure that even the contributors to the Git project rely on the GitHub CI since they can’t run all tests locally.