Great through-history write-up! Thank you.

> That is one of the great ironies of modern Open Source. The distributed version control system won, and then the world standardized on one enormous centralized service for hosting it.

Cycles everywhere indeed. Perhaps we should ->

> GitHub wrote a remarkable chapter of Open Source, and if that chapter is ending, the next one should learn from it and also from what came before.

Indeed! Try to learn from the inevitable iterations to make the next instance at least that slightly better.

... Where the stuff meets the metastuff it seems all works under very similar forces. My thinking is step-by-step - it works on the individual level, and it scales up.

Day to day is step by step and a step today funds the step tomorrow.