I'm assuming you view that as a good thing for open source projects. Without a large, free platform like GitHub, many open source projects would not exist.
There are other source hosting options, but people don't want to host their own, pay to host their project, email patches, or create an account for every project.
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I'm assuming you view that as a good thing for open source projects. Without a large, free platform like GitHub, many open source projects would not exist.
There are other source hosting options, but people don't want to host their own, pay to host their project, email patches, or create an account for every project.
open source hosting existed before GitHub and will continue to exist after it
Github clones are very very cheap to host, what makes the value of Github isn't its features but the fact that it's a central hub for developers