GitHub vs BitBucket

... why is this being reposted? It's old, really old, like 2 years old (or 317 internet years). Scott apologized, took down the original (this is someones backup of it), he and Jesper made up, drank some scotch (or maybe it was whiskey), and all was well with the world. In the meantime someone else apparently had nothing better to do than repost this to fan some flames, because we apparently can't have different services without hating each other.

This is old, and got the author -- deservingly -- yelled at for having the gall to assume Github had invented the standard UI used by every source-code/project-management site in history.

Wow, all you've accomplished is making me want to look at your competitors. What's "innovative and honest" about this?<p>Edit: When was this thing actually posted? The ego-stroking Google Trends chart at the bottom cuts off at the end of 2008.

"the theft."<p>There was no theft. Their design is close to yours, but that is -not- theft.

This might be premature (I'd certainly hate for someone to quickly do this and screw me over), but what would the HN community's reaction be to a new open-source project, offered as both a free site with subscriptions as well as locally installable on a server of your choice, with support for all the major version control systems (SVN, git, mercurial, bazaar), essentially like a cross between GitHub and 37signals' products, and wasn't just a clone of the GitHub/BitBucket formula?<p>Because I'm kind of far into development, and I'd definitely like some conceptual feedback / criticism / words of encouragement that my work won't be for naught. It could be that GitHub is too entrenched at this point, but I'm willing to take that gamble.

<i>Is a Community a Community if Nobody is There?</i><p>I guess in the same vein, HN isn't really a community either since graphing it against Reddit or 4Chan would produce similar results.<p><i>You will also be joining a site run by a team that is innovative and honest, rather than one that unapologetically plagiarizes that team when they see something they like.</i><p>Actually I think I prefer to join a site that works with Mercurial since that's what I use.

Wait...Scott Chacon is with Pocoo Team? My favorite team of superhero coders now has the git guru too?<p>(see the fork me on github link)