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Important Open Source projects should not use GitHub

41 points by mrzool 6y ago

musicale 6y ago
> It is no news that Microsoft purchased GitHub in 2018, everyone knows that. Yet despite that fact thousands of the worlds most important Open Source projects continue to host their code on GitHub. People seem to have forgotten just how rotten Microsoft really is and how dangerous that situation is. Developers probably know if github goes bad, they can relatively easily migrate their code off of github (much as many projects migrated away from sourceforge), and every developer already has a copy of the whole git repo. Issues, pull requests, wiki, and actions are a bit harder to migrate but not really dealbreakers. What evidence is there that Microsoft github is significantly worse (and/or less trustworthy) than pre-Microsoft github?
BuildTheRobots 6y ago
I'm curious why gitlab isn't on the list of self-host alternatives.
coldtea 6y ago
>It is no news that Microsoft purchased GitHub in 2018, everyone knows that. Yet despite that fact thousands of the worlds most important Open Source projects continue to host their code on GitHub. People seem to have forgotten just how rotten Microsoft really is and how dangerous that situation is. What is this? Acid flashbacks from 1998?
Proven 6y ago
Bullshit. Is the author long Filecoin or something? It's easy to migrate code if need be. What's more likely - ad-infested SourceForge goes bust, Gitlab gets acquired by Google or Github goes bad? I'm very happy that MS owns GH, it's been getting better since MS acquired them and MS has enough resources to keep improving it.
2Gkashmiri 6y ago
yeah youtube-dl was nuked with dmca. i am not sure if that would have happened had they been on a selfhosted gitlab. right?
- LIV2 6y ago
  They'll send the DMCA to your hosting provider
  - 2Gkashmiri 6y ago
    and if i self host at home like many people do these days? to the ISP?
    - trillic 6y ago
      yup
  - type0 6y ago
    Then reinstating the repo with different hosting provider outside the US would be a viable alternative
boltefnovor 6y ago
No real reasons given. Just an old-school anti Microsoft rant. Hohum.

41 points by mrzool 6y ago

> It is no news that Microsoft purchased GitHub in 2018, everyone knows that. Yet despite that fact thousands of the worlds most important Open Source projects continue to host their code on GitHub. People seem to have forgotten just how rotten Microsoft really is and how dangerous that situation is. Developers probably know if github goes bad, they can relatively easily migrate their code off of github (much as many projects migrated away from sourceforge), and every developer already has a copy of the whole git repo. Issues, pull requests, wiki, and actions are a bit harder to migrate but not really dealbreakers. What evidence is there that Microsoft github is significantly worse (and/or less trustworthy) than pre-Microsoft github?

BuildTheRobots 6y ago

I'm curious why gitlab isn't on the list of self-host alternatives.

coldtea 6y ago

Proven 6y ago

Bullshit. Is the author long Filecoin or something? It's easy to migrate code if need be. What's more likely - ad-infested SourceForge goes bust, Gitlab gets acquired by Google or Github goes bad? I'm very happy that MS owns GH, it's been getting better since MS acquired them and MS has enough resources to keep improving it.

2Gkashmiri 6y ago

yeah youtube-dl was nuked with dmca. i am not sure if that would have happened had they been on a selfhosted gitlab. right?

LIV2 6y ago
They'll send the DMCA to your hosting provider
- 2Gkashmiri 6y ago
  and if i self host at home like many people do these days? to the ISP?
  - trillic 6y ago
    yup
- type0 6y ago
  Then reinstating the repo with different hosting provider outside the US would be a viable alternative

boltefnovor 6y ago

No real reasons given. Just an old-school anti Microsoft rant. Hohum.