Remind me again why developers are still hosting Free Code development on GritHub?
"With GitHub, it takes the form of disregarding the terms of free software licenses. In the process, they built a tool which facilitates the large-scale laundering of free software into non-free software by their customers, who GitHub offers plausible deniability through an inscrutable algorithm."
#DrewDevault, 2022
"To be specific, a clause which outright forbids the use of your code for training a machine learning model will make your software non-free, and I do not recommend this approach.
Instead, I would update your licenses to clarify that incorporating the code into a machine learning model is considered a form of derived work, and that your license terms apply to the model and any works produced with that model."
#DrewDevault, 2022
"But I discovered that Github is now pushing it even more in that direction: a feed full of random projects and people I don’t care about, notifications to get me to 'discover' new projects and 'follow' new persons. They don’t even try to pretend to be a professional platform anymore. It’s a pure attention-grabbing personal data extorting social networks."
@ploum, 2023
"The best time to leave Github was before it was acquired by Microsoft. The second-best time is now. Sooner or later, you will be forced out of Github like we, oldies, were forced out of Sourceforge. Better leaving while you are free to do it on your own terms…"
@ploum, 2023
https://ploum.net/2023-02-22-leaving-github.html
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