Github: A Great Hijacked Idea

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2021-07-29 10:30:03

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Human beings are inherently social creatures, for better or worse. When they are NOT being social, it is most often the case that there was some reason that led inexorably to their new default unsocial state. Github, then, the version-controlled codebase which is social, would seem to be the most prosocial network ever invented for a usually inherently anti-social people–computer programmers.

GitHub, Inc. was originally a flat organization with no middle managers; in other words, “everyone is a manager” (self-management).] Employees could choose to work on projects that interested them (open allocation), but salaries were set by the chief executive.

In other words, I started participating lightly in that community back when people could work on what they wanted to. A few years later they would trip over hosting something like 3 million files and then after than in 2018 Microsoft swooped in and bought them up.