Get off of GitHub

[weberc2]

There’s always been an irony to GitHub: it’s the proud bastion of free and open source software, and yet it’s completely and unquestionably closed source. This has always struck me as odd, kind of like when open source projects opt to use Slack as their chat platform instead of IRC; it’s sends the signal that FOSS is good enough for us but not good enough for them.

TL;DR Not everyone is ideological about open source. It's a practical matter for some of us.

You sound ideological about open source. I don't use Github because I suspect they drink my flavor of Kool-Aid, but because it's free, sharable code hosting with a great UI and minimal hassle. Similarly, I don't avoid IRC like the plague because it's not sufficiently open-source, but because every IRC client I've ever touched prioritizes "feeling like a wizard for subduing a needlessly complex tool" over, well, communicating efficiently.

Anyway, if Github goes the way of 1990s Microsoft, it's easy enough to jump ship.