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Git is Free Software, GitHub is Proprietary Trap

"The country shall be independent, and we will be satisfied with nothing short of it." --Samuel Adams

Thai Political Crisis Breakup: Git is Free software, Self-hosted; better regain control of my work



Summary: More and more people all around the world understand that putting their fruit of labour in Microsoft's proprietary (but 'free') prison is misguided; the only vault they have is for human beings, not code

THE campaign to remove projects from GitHub has been partly successful. Some high-profile projects consider leaving, some have already left, and many new projects reject GitHub from the get-go, instead opting for a variety of alternatives including bare-bones Git.

"Microsoft had planned to buy GitHub for a very long time (4 years before it actually happened), since the death of CodePlex and the loss of control over developers everywhere."GitHub is not and never was Free software. It's a classic example of "embrace and "extend", so Microsoft is perhaps a perfect match for it. Microsoft had planned to buy GitHub for a very long time (4 years before it actually happened), since the death of CodePlex and the loss of control over developers everywhere.

The worst one can do is put any code on GitHub; it's being chained to the 'network', contributing to GitHub's 'network effect', which in effect embodies monopoly.

More and more people now understand this. Our Delete Github wiki page exceeded 50,000 views last week and people habitually suggest additions to it. It's not a 'shame list' but somewhat of a watchlist; it's also a bit of a "TODO" list. We've long had something similar for Mono applications and it recently exceeded a quarter million views. Just putting out there a list of programs/projects can have a positive effect.

The fate of GitHub will be the same as CodePlex's. We heard that GitHub staff (what's left of it anyway; many left in protest) saw a decline after Microsoft had taken over. Watch what Microsoft did to LinkedIn (about a thousand layoffs this past summer) and the loss of Skype monopoly, not to mention what happened ton Nokia (complete and utter disaster). Don't put your code (work) in a "burning platform"... GitHub now operates like a cult, like Microsoft.

GitHub is bad

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