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Harness launches Gitness, an open-source GitHub competitor
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Am I the only person annoyed they seem to mistake repositories for forges? It's already annoying when casual users say "git" for "GitHub", but those guys actually want to build a forge, explaining they're going to do better than anyone else. Maybe start by properly using the terms?
And of course there have been forges launched, including SourceHut, Gitea, Gogs, Forgejo…
"They are the same picture."
I myself have launched several new git repos in the last decade. Where's my article TechCrunch?
I complained when the term "crypto" was co-opted. Come die with me on this hill where we care about things.
Also plain wrong - Codeberg launched in 2019. Now the question is: did the author just not know better, or is he paid not to know?
Codeberg isn't an entirely new forge. It's just a well-known gitea/forgejo instance. Sourcehut would probably be a better example.
Thank you for the correction! Then it's also wrong due to Gitea which launched in 2016.
The worst part is that this is a direct quote from Harness' CEO, not from TechCrunch author. :) Maybe they have a great product, I don't know, but it certainly feels like an amateurish launch. :D
Yeah, if a CEO has to lie to make their product seem better, it's blacklisted in my mind.
I thought you were being overly pedantic but my god, they keep repeating the point. They seem to have no idea what the difference between a platform hosting code repositories and an individual repository is or even what version control software is. What the bloody hell is this.
At the very least, it means the CEO doesn't understand the domain. It may be because he sees this part of the business as secondary and less important, or because it was developed so fast he didn't have time to grasp the concepts, probably he was not a driving force in that effort. I certainly hope the tech side is more aware. Without more proof of CEO implication, I certainly would not bet on that horse to survive in the distant future, though.