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"There are philosophical reasons, too: GitHub is closed source, so we can’t make it better ourselves. Mako Hill has an essay called Free Software Needs Free Too
by bootload 11y ago
"There are philosophical reasons, too: GitHub is closed source, so we can’t make it better ourselves. Mako Hill has an essay called Free Software Needs Free Tools, which describes the problems with depending on proprietary software to produce free software, and I think he’s right." -- Chris Ball
cf: discussion "Announcing GitTorrent: A Decentralized GitHub" ~ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9625840 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9625840