You're right, there's no technical reason this should matter when it comes to our git repositories.  But GitHub offers services other than repository hosting.  People use it for all kinds of things: <a href="http://twitter.com/sintaxi/statuses/8618821433" rel="nofollow">http://twitter.com/sintaxi/statuses/8618821433</a><p>Not to mention that some of us are paying customers.  And it has been two hours so far.  That's a long outage, even for GitHub.