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Re:GitHub has received a DMCA from MPA about torrent tracker... by toomuchtodo on Tuesday January 19, 2021 @01:33PM (#25836836)
More effective would be those who are at orgs paying for Github Enterprise to express to their account managers they'll take their business elsewhere if Github is unable to defend it's platform from malicious actors.

Github don't care if you take your code elsewhere. They most definitely care about revenue (and developer mindshare a somewhat close second).

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Re:GitHub has received a DMCA from MPA about torrent tracker... by _jal on Tuesday January 19, 2021 @02:04PM (#25837297)
Such a claim is pretty weak, actually. MS would not be held responsible for code in someone's GHE instance any more than they would for a movie stored on an NTFS file system.

So the sales rep is likely just going to be confused by the attempt to use unrelated leverage.

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Re:GitHub has received a DMCA from MPA about torrent tracker... by almaember on Tuesday January 19, 2021 @02:12PM (#25837435)
No, but GHE is paid software. And not like it's impossible to migrate, it's just a fancy git frontend after all. Gogs/Gitea/Gitlab CE is completely capable of doing what it does.
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Re:GitHub has received a DMCA from MPA about torrent tracker... by oarsinsync on Tuesday January 19, 2021 @06:11PM (#25840231)
Cost of migrating from GHE to something else usually exceeds the cost of GHE itself.

Migrations generally are non trivial. They don't generally happen just to push one's principles.

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Re:GitHub has received a DMCA from MPA about torrent tracker... by almaember on Wednesday January 20, 2021 @02:24AM (#25843508)
Depends on how you do it. Of course if you want to move instantly then that's gonna be hard. But slowly moving isn't that bad, or creating new projects somewhere else and slowly porting old ones.

Even then, it's possible that just companies that planned to buy GHE will simply not buy it and use something open source instead.

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