It was in my mind. Won't pretend it wasn't.

I'm not criticizing his point directly either, more refining it. I'm all for benefitting for something that's given free, but as is so often the case, free comes with strings. It's good to be leery of lock-in.

I do see a lot of projects really integrated into github's ecosystem, and that's not good or even nessessary. We have BugZilla, Open project, et al.

Git also, as I pointed out, minimizes the possible damage. Part of what I love about git is keeping a local history. There are large projects out there that are backed up (in a manner of speaking) on tens of thousands of computers all over the world. That's pretty dang cool.

I expect Microsoft to do whatever is good for Microsoft. For now, that's also mostly good for developers, but I agree that it could change at the drop of a hat. At least with Git, we are better prepared than we have been in the past.