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Is this just about Github Enterprise Server? If so, the article doesn't really make that clear, and it seems like a red herring. AFAIK Microsoft does not curren

• danarmak 7y ago
  It could also be about Github private repos, which cost money, and therefore are a business relationship. If Huawei has a private repo on Github, is Microsoft now required to delete their account?
• paranoidrobot 7y ago
  Perhaps, but also a huge number of public OSS projects. To take an example of a large OSS Project hosted on Github: The Microsoft .NET Core framework[1]. If I want to contribute a code change - their guidelines require me to submit a pull request on github. If I want to submit an issue - their guidelines also require me to log the issue on github. This is not unusual for most OSS projects which use Github as their central collaboration point. Today that's all A-OK for Chinese devs. The scenario discussed is if the trade-war extends, and either the US or Chinese governments block access to Github for Chinese users. Now, perhaps it's easy enough for someone to set up a mirror copy of everything in China - but that's going to limit or block collaboration. Bug fixes, changes, issues - they're not going to get across as easily. I can't email a pull request to the .NET CoreFX team saying "Hey, I fixed this". This is going to lead to fragmentation of popular OSS projects, and will be an overall net-loss for everyone. [1] https://github.com/dotnet/corefx https://github.com/dotnet/corefx