The GitHub Threat (carlchenet.com)

I agree with this, also another issue with Github's dominance is silly recruiters now think a github profile is the best way to evaluate candidates. Sucks for those of us who use self-hosted revision control, Gitlab, or Bitbucket at work.

Also another thing is when Github changed its licensing model it really hurt those of us working on small budgets like at non-profits or in education. https://venturebeat.com/2016/05/11/github-changes-pricing-un... For example, I worked at a public university where we had student workers. I could convince our dean to pay per repo but once it was per user we had to migrate off Github because we couldn't afford it. Migrating off took up a lot of my time.