Comment by Aldipower
5 days ago
My memories are different. Git became amazing on it's own and was a big advantage over SVN. GitHub was "a open source" thing in the beginning. No company here had the idea to host proprietary closed source code on another platform they do not have control over. This eventually became a thing later though and the mindset shifted.
I think you're both right. Post-Github, a lot of Git's adoption came from Github. But Github "worked" because a lot of people were already using Git and Github offered them amazing value, and that initial userbase created a viral effect: People increasingly came into contact with Github via projects hosted there, and those who did not already use Git picked it up as a result of that.
And now many companies do have the idea of hosting proprietary code on a shitty, buggy, closed-source platform they have no control over. Indeed a shifted mindset. Maybe it wasn't shitty, buggy and closed-source enough before.