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What's wrong with GitHub?

• NickBusey 6y ago
  Many of us prefer using open source software to develop our open source software. GitHub is not open source.
• sneak 6y ago
  They are owned by a large military defense contractor that eagerly participates in the US military’s global surveillance programs, for one. The fact that they happily provide services to an organization that runs concentration camps is another.
  • Dahoon 6y ago
    Scary we live in a world where you can't instantly guess which of the big powers you are talking about in that last part. PRC re-education camps or Gitmo or ....
    • pabs3 6y ago
      Seems like it is referring to the USA's ICE: https://www.theverge.com/2019/10/9/20906213/github-ice-microsoft-software-email-contract-immigration-nonprofit-donation https://www.theverge.com/2019/10/9/20906213/github-ice-micro... https://www.bu.edu/articles/2019/are-ice-detention-centers-concentration-camps/ https://www.bu.edu/articles/2019/are-ice-detention-centers-c...
• zucker42 6y ago
  In addition to the reasons GitHub is "bad", people may just prefer to use other hosting platforms.
  • esperent 6y ago
    > In addition to the reasons GitHub is "bad" Reasons such as?
    • E5JBK7UJPT 6y ago
      The fact that it is closed source and owned by Microsoft.
• buovjaga 6y ago
  Our bugs are in a self-hosted Bugzilla: https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/ https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/
• blendergeek 6y ago
  Possibly nothing. However, we don't want a dependency on one hosting provider. As we see with bounty source, any system can turn.
• jeltz 6y ago
  Not all projects use Github.