"By being on GitHub, we reduce friction from the contribution process and we maximize the ability for others to join in and help. We lower the bar. This is good for us."
There have been many criticism towards GitHub on the Fediverse (#GiveUpGitHub). Some even say it's the "Twitter of hosting code". While I understand the rationale, I disagree. Been using GitHub for over a decade now and have hundreds of repositories there. Without GitHub it would be amazingly difficult to manage. I use for-profit products by Microsoft, can you imagine some of them have their place in the world?
I can quit Twitter, Facebook, etc. and self-host almost anything, but not my and the firm's code. Why?
Read: "What if GitHub is the devil?", an article by @bagder
https://daniel.haxx.se/blog/2021/01/28/what-if-github-is-the-devil/ #OpenSource #GitHub
There have been many criticism towards GitHub on the Fediverse (#GiveUpGitHub). Some even say it's the "Twitter of hosting code". While I understand the rationale, I disagree. Been using GitHub for over a decade now and have hundreds of repositories there. Without GitHub it would be amazingly difficult to manage. I use for-profit products by Microsoft, can you imagine some of them have their place in the world?
I can quit Twitter, Facebook, etc. and self-host almost anything, but not my and the firm's code. Why?
Read: "What if GitHub is the devil?", an article by @bagder
https://daniel.haxx.se/blog/2021/01/28/what-if-github-is-the-devil/ #OpenSource #GitHub
Michael Downey 🇺🇳
in reply to Roni Laukkarinen • • •Because there are plenty of alternatives that people use every day.
https://GiveUpGitHub.org/
https://mako.cc/writing/hill-free_tools.html
#GiveUpGitHub #UserRights #SurveillanceCapitalism #OpenSource
Give Up GitHub - Software Freedom Conservancy
giveupgithub.org