New Revolutionary Blockchain Decentralized Code Repository Answers the Call of Developers Crying Wolf Over GitHub

And, boy, are they bawling. Real alligator tears, in fact. But why? For years — since 2008 — GitHub has been the pride and joy of open-source developers, even utilized by massive empires like Apple, Google and Amazon. We’re talking a gargantuan 85MM code bases from more than 28MM developers. The volume’s staggering.

The draw, of course, of GitHub was the fact that it was (and technically still is) completely open-source — free to use, share, offer, trade in, develop, place. Think of an open market digital utopia, and that sums up GitHub to a tee. For ten years, they reigned in that same market until….

Microsoft Then Purchased GitHub for a Wicked $7.5B

In essence, a conundrum: how can a “free” open-source community like GitHub be “bought” by a mega-giant like Microsoft? That’s the cyberspace equivalent of Armageddon, and it would seem that Microsoft is the antichrist. In fact, plenty of developers claim that Microsoft would be the bane of existence (at least of open-source technology).

The fact is many developers are crying wolf given the truth that for years the company’s been the foil, the archenemy — nay, the Voldemort — of the open-source community. Take a look at the year of 2001 when Steve Ballmer, Microsoft CEO, labeled Linux as a cancer of the OS landscape simply for being an open-source system. The company had always been notoriously against anything open-source, commercializing and profiting from the state-of-the-art innovation of computerized technology.

Heck, it got even worse when in 2007 Microsoft accused Linux of violating 235 of its own patents, suing TomTom, the mapping company, for IP infringement. Why? Because TomTom uses Linux. Of course, the two firms then settled until Microsoft then reared its ugly head again at Red Hat, a company successfully rendering Linux enterprise-ready.

We get it, though; Linux has been since then a direct competitor of Microsoft. Long story short, if you had to choose an OS, would you pay for it (Windows) or get it for free (Linux)? You can understand Microsoft’s chagrin.

Not All Is Negative, Though, About the “Big Bad Wolf”

Times do change, and Microsoft has evolved some. Since the changing of the CEO guard in 2014, it turns out that Microsoft has embraced the idea of open source tech a bit more, especially having open-sourced its own Microsoft Edge Javascript engine, PowerShell and Visual Studio Code as well as working with the developer of Ubuntu — which happens to be quite the popular Linux distro — to actually run on Windows 10.

Bravo. That’s a milestone. You know what we’re talking about: compatibility issues and all of that crap. It always was a big headache, like a big bad wolf that could never coexist with all the little piggies, and then you see a ton of straw houses and wooden houses blown to the ground. Now for once the “piggies” don’t have to get so scared….

Still it is an odd fit. Even if this “big bad wolf” never blew any houses down, you simply can’t see such a predator consort with those pigs on a daily basis. They’re both on opposite sides of the spectrum: Microsoft = slow-moving bureaucracy, GitHub = free-source innovation and advocacy. It’s a tough combo. And a lot of developers still aren’t feeling the flow.

Enter: the Blockchain. Enter: NitHub.

Here we have the ultimate answer for all developers — a code repository just like GitHub but more secure for open-source, and how and why? — blockchain technology.

Powered by the Nebulas blockchain and completely de-centralized, immutable and accountable, the community ensures the very open-source code it houses remains as such — never altered, never removed, never manipulated, and always available. Even if one day this new repository ends up “owned” by some “company” down the road.

The fact is you’ve got true-blue developers with the same freedom mindset you’d want for an open-source code repository — this blockchain-regulated community launched by the Silicon Valley Blockchain Developer Hackathon in June of 2018. It fits.

The blockchain is completely impartial — regulated with accountability and completely safe and secure even from monopolies and other “big, bad wolves” looking to own a piece of that blockchain pie. It’s not going to happen. Developers can rest assured: they can store their code in NitHub, and people can freely depend on that code as open-source as it should be.

GitHub Will Always Be GitHub, and Microsoft Will Always Be Microsoft

The truth is in the long run GitHub will benefit from the acquisition. Developers? Perhaps not as much. Thanks to NitHub, though, we see a great future for open-source technology — and it’s all thanks to the blockchain.