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Mistakes happen and hopefully this was just one of them. The alternative is slightly too difficult to bear.

• save_ferris 6y ago
  That’s not a valid excuse for people who rely on these services professionally. The ability for companies to errantly and permanently ban people without any kind of due process is unacceptable. If we as a community truly care about OSS and the people behind it, this kind of error cannot be tolerated. It flies in the face of everything that the open source community stands for.
  • IncRnd 6y ago
    If someone maintains a project, wouldn't they have the code and be able to push it to another service (or run their own)?
    • save_ferris 6y ago
      This is realistic only if they're the only ones contributing to it, because otherwise they have to convince their other maintainers to use another platform. What if the other maintainers just fork the Github repo and keep going? Now the community has diverged purely because of corporate incompetence. And in the case of this particular developer, he lost sponsorship because he was locked out of his GitHub account. The problem with Github is that everyone uses it, and services like Gitlab still don't have the same level of activity in the open source community. Well over 95% of source code links posted here on HN, for example, are Github links.
      • IncRnd 6y ago
        > This is realistic only if they're the only ones contributing to it, because otherwise they have to convince their other maintainers to use another platform. Thanks! How do you know this was due to corporate incompetence?