There are always "bad" sides to things. Yet I personally see the good parts of GitHub largely outweighing the "bad" parts. > GitHub wants to control your proje

There are always "bad" sides to things. Yet I personally see the good parts of GitHub largely outweighing the "bad" parts. > GitHub wants to control your projects on GitHub So because they have become popular GitHub now wants to control everyone? Sounds more paranoid than anything else. > developers have become enslaved by a large company telling them how to do their project management GitHub provides limited ways to manage your project, but it's not mandatory! Disable the issue tracker and wiki, and use whatever management tools you want. Also just because he doesn't like the project management tools GitHub provides, doesn't imply that everyone has been enslaved and forced to use it. It can be very useful and comes at no cost and not setup required for Open Source projects. > Censorship Such an overused word. GitHub is not obligated to protect your rights for freedom of speech. They have Terms of Service and if they judge something as not fitting for their platforms, they have the right to remove it. That is not censorship. Whether the DMCA requests where legitimate or not, is in my opinion something lawyers should deal with and not random partially biased internet users. > Terms of Service The goal of ToS is to protect the company which in turn protects the whole user base from "bad" users. Again the ToS are not here to provide you security or protection, but it lays out how you can use the service and what rights GitHub keeps in case you're determined to be a "bad" user. What I'm missing from the post is an alternative - if not GitHub what then? Because I'm sure you'll find similar points for any other Git repository hosting company, which leaves you with self-hosting. But for self-hosting people usually forget to calculate for the time spent setting things up, maintaining it and making sure everything is secure. Especially regarding security I'd personally trust a company more than co-worker who knows something about Linux and servers or myself.