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What if you don't have a GitHub account?

• andrewflnr 13y ago
  Get one :). You're not selling your soul. They don't require much beyond an email, IIRC.
  • chriswarbo 13y ago
    Selling one's personal data and selling one's 'soul' (principles) are two different things. Just because GitHub only requires an email address to join, doesn't mean they're not incentivised to replace a decentralised Free Software system (git) with a centralised proprietary alternative (git+github). I'm a massive fan of git, which is precisely why I do not, and never will, use github.
    • andrewflnr 13y ago
      Hmm. I wasn't thinking about it from that perspective. Still, I don't see github as a replacement, but simply an optional nice UI for git collaboration. It's easy to set yourself up so that if Github went down or you wanted to move off it, you could. The only tricky part would be not investing too deeply in the issue tracker, but that's not a replacement for git anyway. I'm not sure they can be said to be incentivized to do something that's nearly impossible.
  • nilved 13y ago
    GitHub is shady in its tracking and data gathering and is opposite the decentralized nature of git, so signing up would indeed be selling out on my principles for the ability to use this website. Truthfully, I've forgone things much more convenient or interesting for far less important matters (which is not to say this site is uninteresting.)