Most companies have an organization on Github and use it for their public SDKs, API wrappers, etc.<p>These companies tend to not take pull requests or anything, so there's little social interaction. Why don't most of these companies self host read only repositories for these SDKs?<p>It seems like they add a dependency (Github) for little gain (maybe some SEO link juice and the rare issue that gets reported).
If they already use Github for their _private_ repos, then it's the opposite situation: running a separate read-only site for the public code would add an entire web-facing system for no gain.
But are we sure it is most?... It would be good to know the percentages, distribution by company size, etc. Seems like quite interesting info.<p>I imagine that hosting a code repository gives the company control over it, but it can be a nuisance too. Using Github is just outsourcing that particular task, as companies do for other concerns.