Your real aim is to discuss Github.

Open source used to be something esoteric, the guys knew each others or stumbled upon them.
With the advent of the internet we've seen a rise.

What used to be exotic is now common.

Search engines have pushed this to a new limit, we can now freely access anyone's open source software.
Another issue with open sourcing is that you have to find a way to distribute it, make it available online for others to download.
The only way available is by using a friend's or community server or your own.

Github is one of those place but unlike ftp servers or whatever, it's a closed source ruby based webserver.

The great thing with web ui is that they make it easy for non-very-technical people to download and check projects.
The annoying thing about a closed source Github is that it's completely paradoxical and an oxymoron of what their project actually stand for. It makes you genuinely question it.

Maybe it's related to how "corporate" they want to appeal to companies.

Back to today.
Open source has become a hipster thing, we see a lot of "unicorn ninja open source evangelist"-whatever which gets on everyone's nerves.
We are seeing a bunch of companies suddenly coming out and releasing their softwares as open source, mainly for branding and reputation.

Open source is usually coined with "stability" and "security" because it lets everyone asserts if the code is fine or not. However, if a company suddenly releases a code that has been worked on for more than 10 years and expects others to contribute to it this will rarely ever happen. Open source projects go through long periods of time and gradual improvements and everyone agrees to the changes.
The only thing the people can profit from when a company open sources their software out of the blue is to be able to fetch some important parts of the code they have or to install the software for free, if it wasn't already.

I think I've developed enough to get a conversation going.