• dan@upvote.au
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    11 months ago

    There are many other places where DVCS repositories can be hosted

    I mean… Everyone that’s cloned the repo has a full copy of it. You could clone it directly off someone else if you wanted to.

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      11 months ago

      Sure… and you could pass around porn on thumb drives. But, having a central website where you can browse public repos and clone the interesting ones is a pretty key part of Open Source / Free Software development.