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. Wha

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.