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    GitHub isn't open source; perhaps you were thinking of GitLab? Commented Jun 29, 2015 at 4:14
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    No I wasn't. Lots and lots of GitHub's resources and features are open source and you can find their code on GitHub. Of course, you can't really run your own version of it, so that's what I meant by premium features. They're basically selling the intranet version to companies. Therefore, I think of GitHub as a combination of open source + premium features. Commented Jun 29, 2015 at 14:43
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    More "offer a service based on open source" to me... Commented Jan 16, 2016 at 0:36
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    It's a bit disingenuous to call Github open-source when the core of the product isn't open-source. That's like saying macOS is open-source because Apple uses open-source technologies like these: opensource.apple.com . Based on just about any open-source definition, Github isn't open-source. Commented May 25, 2021 at 17:37