Python and GitHub

But here's the kicker for me: A DVCS repo is a social network, so it matters in a functional way what everyone else is using. Guido Van Rossum

Hrm, let's try that again, but with actual historical perspective:

But here's the kicker for me: A DVCS repo is a social network, so it matters [that we choose a network with a long and storied history of exclusionary bullshit]. Guido Van Rossum

I mean, it's not what he "said." But it is what he said.

(Follow-up question: If the software that itself provides the foundational infrastructure for a huge percentage of the web (and a significant percentage of the rest of the Internet) decides it is no longer possible to manage its own infrastructure, how fucked are the rest of us? You can whine about net neutrality all you want, but here's the real threat to open and accessible communication.)