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Yeah, I was talking about access to third-party dependencies, which I had assumed was the crisis the OP had in mind. I've since read many sibling replies fret

Yeah, I was talking about access to third-party dependencies, which I had assumed was the crisis the OP had in mind. I've since read many sibling replies fret over build automation or source code storage, but some downtime in build automation will rarely damage customers and (my goodness) I hope people aren't trusting the only copy of all their IP to a business partner and that they always have a very recent backup somewhere they own themselves.

andrewaylett 3y ago
Some things are disappointingly hard to back up properly. Source code isn't really in that category. There's still a question of how strong an ownership we need -- for example, my mail server is owned by OVH, and its backups are sent to rsync.net. I consider that to be sufficent ownership of backups. I'm much more likely to lose my files than they are. I'm sure that GitHub also have backups, but they're not for the benefit of their customers.