Github is now a fully owned, proprietary tool of Microsoft.
It's time to decide.
Do we as a community allow our future to depend upon commercial interests of a company that to this day spreads FUD and minimizes our impact when it suits their plans?
Or do we step up, do what we do best and take our code to somewhere created by the us for us and the good of the community?
This isn't about hating Microsoft. It's about loving our own sovereignty and controlling our *own* future.
Please Boost.
@Blort But github was already a closed source product monetizing analytics and metadata to stay afloat, selling toolkits to recruiters.
If Microsoft does the exact same thing does that make it any different?
But if you do move, please consider Gitea over Gitlab, Gitlab is just another Github w/ a better whitelabel implementation.
@Elucidating It was a problem before Microsoft, and it's still a problem with Microsoft. Of course Microsoft has a longer history of exploiting the problems if proprietary code, but regardless, the point remains the same. If we believe in the freedom to own, share, learn from and modify our code for the benefit of all, then we should with our hosting tools, as with our other coffee and infrastructure.
@Blort As I have pointed out, I think that that right is actually very problematic and most developers of software do not want the responsibility it brings.
I think it's not a slam dunk to say that users should have unlimited rights because it strongly disenfranchises creators. It purports to make everyone a software creator, but actually discourages shared code due to writer liability.
