> It also makes the CERN's strategic decision to go full Open Source less appealing by time. Although there are many examples on how proprietary hurt us too (I

> It also makes the CERN's strategic decision to go full Open Source less appealing by time. Although there are many examples on how proprietary hurt us too (I see you there oracle). Surely FOSS is overwhelmingly preferable precisely for this reason - if you use github and they decide to screw you over you're stuck. If gitlab does decide to screw you over then you still have the source code for the last good version, and 1. you can patch/fork it yourselves, 2. you can hire someone else to patch/fork it, and 3. if there's a decent-size community then probably someone else will fork it. Or more concretely, yeah the CentOS thing sucked, but there are multiple replacement forks, which never would have been an option if it wasn't open source.