The other comment was closer to the heart of it: if those projects used Github's paid hosting maybe they'd have a reason to complain. Part of the beauty of git

The other comment was closer to the heart of it: if those projects used Github's paid hosting maybe they'd have a reason to complain. Part of the beauty of git is that it would be absolutely _trivial_ to have a secondary "backup URL" located somewhere else if Github were down. And git would automatically handle the rest.