> If GitHub was just for open source hosting I suspect they’d have trouble monetising like sourceforge clearly did
It made it harder to monetize, but it enabled Source Forge to use a huge amount of voluntarily-given bandwidth and saved them a fortune at a time bandwidth was crazy-expensive.
Bandwidth costs were one of the reasons something like GitHub didn't appear earlier, and suddenly popped-up a lot of times out of nowhere.
It made it harder to monetize, but it enabled Source Forge to use a huge amount of voluntarily-given bandwidth and saved them a fortune at a time bandwidth was crazy-expensive.
Bandwidth costs were one of the reasons something like GitHub didn't appear earlier, and suddenly popped-up a lot of times out of nowhere.