Success!
Failure!
Loading...
wired.com

Lord of the Files: How GitHub Tamed Free Software (And More)

This is a collection of all 17 recommendations for “Lord of the Files: How GitHub Tamed Free Software (And More)”. You’ll probably need 10 minutes to finish this text.

By popularity By time
achimrolle
The problem is that not everyone is Linus Torvalds, and not every company is Google. For the 99 percent, Git’s command-line interface is notoriously difficult to use. That’s where GitHub comes in. It simplifies Git. A lot. Its first slogan was: “Git hosting: No longer a pain in the ass.”
Estimated reading time: 10 min
Recited from Martin Wolf
Jeremy Lonien
GitHub users are seemingly everywhere. On recent afternoon in San Francisco’s North Beach neighborhood, Wired was discussing the site with GitHub director of engineering Ryan Tomayko. Suddenly the guy at the next table leaned over and interrupted, like a teenager overhearing two strangers talk about his favorite band. “I just have to tell you,” he said, “GitHub is amazing.”
Estimated reading time: 10 min
  1. Jeremy Lonien

    Jeremy Lonien How GitHub tamed Free Software

    February 22, 2012
  2. Jeremy Lonien

    Jeremy Lonien They also published this article itself as a Git repository on GitHub: github.com/WiredEnterprise/Lord-of-the-Files

    February 22, 2012
Sven Giegerich
The problem is that not everyone is Linus Torvalds, and not every company is Google. For the 99 percent, Git’s command-line interface is notoriously difficult to use. That’s where GitHub comes in. It simplifies Git. A lot. Its first slogan was: “Git hosting: No longer a pain in the ass.”
Estimated reading time: 10 min
Recited from Martin Wolf
Marcus André
The problem is that not everyone is Linus Torvalds, and not every company is Google. For the 99 percent, Git’s command-line interface is notoriously difficult to use. That’s where GitHub comes in. It simplifies Git. A lot. Its first slogan was: “Git hosting: No longer a pain in the ass.”
Estimated reading time: 10 min
Recited from Martin Wolf
Martin Wolf
The problem is that not everyone is Linus Torvalds, and not every company is Google. For the 99 percent, Git’s command-line interface is notoriously difficult to use. That’s where GitHub comes in. It simplifies Git. A lot. Its first slogan was: “Git hosting: No longer a pain in the ass.”
Estimated reading time: 10 min
  1. Martin Wolf

    Martin Wolf The story of GitHub.

    February 23, 2012 | 1
  2. Florian Rogner

    Florian Rogner Sehr interessant!

    February 25, 2012
Nils Riedemann
The problem is that not everyone is Linus Torvalds, and not every company is Google. For the 99 percent, Git’s command-line interface is notoriously difficult to use. That’s where GitHub comes in. It simplifies Git. A lot. Its first slogan was: “Git hosting: No longer a pain in the ass.”
Estimated reading time: 10 min
Recited from Martin Wolf
supermichael64
GitHub users are seemingly everywhere. On recent afternoon in San Francisco’s North Beach neighborhood, Wired was discussing the site with GitHub director of engineering Ryan Tomayko. Suddenly the guy at the next table leaned over and interrupted, like a teenager overhearing two strangers talk about his favorite band. “I just have to tell you,” he said, “GitHub is amazing.”
Estimated reading time: 10 min
Recited from Jeremy Lonien
kurtzenter
The problem is that not everyone is Linus Torvalds, and not every company is Google. For the 99 percent, Git’s command-line interface is notoriously difficult to use. That’s where GitHub comes in. It simplifies Git. A lot. Its first slogan was: “Git hosting: No longer a pain in the ass.”
Estimated reading time: 10 min
Recited from Martin Wolf
Daniel Puglisi
GitHub users are seemingly everywhere. On recent afternoon in San Francisco’s North Beach neighborhood, Wired was discussing the site with GitHub director of engineering Ryan Tomayko. Suddenly the guy at the next table leaned over and interrupted, like a teenager overhearing two strangers talk about his favorite band. “I just have to tell you,” he said, “GitHub is amazing.”
Estimated reading time: 10 min
Recited from Jeremy Lonien
Jan Ehlert
The problem is that not everyone is Linus Torvalds, and not every company is Google. For the 99 percent, Git’s command-line interface is notoriously difficult to use. That’s where GitHub comes in. It simplifies Git. A lot. Its first slogan was: “Git hosting: No longer a pain in the ass.”
Estimated reading time: 10 min
Recited from Marcus André
Florian Eckerstorfer
When the founders of GitHub moved into their swank South-of-Market loft last year, the first thing they did was redecorate. They turned the floor’s biggest office into a parody of an executive suite — complete with fake fireplace, plush leather chairs, and a wooden globe that slides open to reveal a bottle of single malt scotch. Hanging from the wall is a painting of a cat, dressed as Napoleon, with five octopus-like legs. They call it the Octocat.
Estimated reading time: 10 min
  1. Florian Eckerstorfer

    Florian Eckerstorfer How GitHub revolutionized Open Source.

    February 22, 2012
manuel
“GitHub is the best thing ever. If you don’t host on GitHub, it doesn’t exist,” says Baldwin
Estimated reading time: 10 min
  1. manuel

    manuel How GitHub became what it is today.
    Another good passage in the text is the "can I just send you a check"-part. I like this company and product alot (pun intended).
    (via Martin Wolf)

    February 23, 2012
Johannes .
The problem is that not everyone is Linus Torvalds, and not every company is Google. For the 99 percent, Git’s command-line interface is notoriously difficult to use. That’s where GitHub comes in. It simplifies Git. A lot. Its first slogan was: “Git hosting: No longer a pain in the ass.”
Estimated reading time: 10 min
  1. Johannes .

    Johannes . GitHub Liebe.

    February 24, 2012
Jens Nikolaus
“I want to live in a world where it’s easier to work together than to work alone… where every part of the software development process is a joy,” says CEO Wanstrath. “And I think GitHub can help make that happen.”
Estimated reading time: 10 min
  1. Jens Nikolaus

    Jens Nikolaus (via Martin Wolf)

    February 23, 2012
Christian Kokott
By January of 2008, Hyett was on board. And three months after that night in the sports bar, Wanstrath got a message from Geoffrey Grosenbach, the founder of PeepCode, an online learning site that had started using GitHub. “I’m hosting my company’s code here,” Grosenbach said. “I don’t feel comfortable not-paying you guys. Can I just send a check?”
Estimated reading time: 10 min
More