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Why give up GitHub?
- Copilot is a for-profit product that violated licenses
- GitHub has a for-profit software services contract with the USA Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE)
- While GitHub pretends to be pro-FOSS (like SourceForge before them), their entire hosting site is, itself, proprietary and/or trade-secret software. GitHub differs from most of its peers in the FOSS project hosting industry, as GitHub does not even offer any self-hosting FOSS option. Their entire codebase is secret.
- GitHub has long sought to discredit copyleft generally. Their various CEOs have often spoken loudly and negatively about copyleft
- GitHub is wholly owned by Microsoft, a company whose executives have historically repeatedly attacked copyleft licensing.
How do I give up?
Hard because vendor lock-in.
Alternatives?
CodeBerg, SourceHut, Gitea, Gitlab.
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