Comments by "Anony Mousse" (@anon_y_mousse) on "Why Github Actually Won" video.
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Many years ago before GH was a thing, SourceForge had way fewer ads. It wasn't until after GH rose up to replace it that SF started having far too many ads. Also, what the fuck is he talking about by saying that "open source" was coined in 1998? I don't know how old he is, but it was a term when I was a youngster back in the 80's. I had subscriptions to several magazines that had printed source code. GNU has existed since at least the 80's too. When I was in high school playing with Linux there were plenty of open source programs. Maybe not the millions that there are today, but thousands at the time is no chump change.
Quite a few CVS servers had anonymous access, especially for open source projects. You rarely had to login or use guest credentials, and I tended to just not bother with projects that had such annoyances. Maybe I'm in the minority when it comes to reading changelogs, because I look at that information for nearly every repo that I play with. The `blame` feature of `git` is one of the most fun features that I use on a regular basis, too.
I will admit that I like GH being user centric. Quite a few times I've pulled a user's entire set of repos just because they made it so easy to do. I've got a `bash` script which I can just give the user name to it, and it downloads their entire list of repos and yields a flat list of repo URL's. Then I can either just automate downloading all of them one after the other, or I can use `fzf` to select specific repos. One final note regarding Mercurial is that FireFox uses it. It's one of the more annoying aspects of building it because there's a whole complicated process to getting to code. They should have just moved to using Git at some point.
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