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I dislike organizations that take open source things like git, and then extend them to add features making them propriety work flow lock in making it hard to move to a new platform

Another company was famous for this, they used to call it Embrace, Extend, Extinguish



Well, with the hub cli, it is just using GitHub's public API. I don't think it is doing anything proprietary.


> I don't think it is doing anything proprietary.

Does github provide the code of their servers that implements the API? Can you self-host it? If not, then it is pretty proprietary.




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