Personally I am planning to move to GitHub soon. The CI limit is very small for an active project testing across a few different Python versions, I am reaching it just with a couple pushes per day.

Serious downsides to being the product include: * No means of production - whatever profit you hoped to have can simply be taken away from you. * No control over your likeness, IP * Limited legal protections * Finding yourself being sold in ways you find unethical.

I'd reconsider your planned move, unless I guess you really just don't care about your project longevity...

I don't know what you mean by "taken away from you" or "control over likeness" or even "legal protections". Code is intangible, it can be multiple places. If you're referring to Copilot, my code can already be taken whether I use GitHub as my base of operations or not...

You throw around big words that apply to other industries, but what specifically do you think I lose with software?

Tools are not made all equal, and there's this fallacy that just because it is a tool it is probably OK and as easy to use as abuse.

To borrow from the medical industry - yes, opiate drugs are absolutely useful _in specific cases of extreme acute pain_, but that doesn't make them good tools for dealing with a headache.

A tool can be bad, even if it can be used well, likewise a tool can be good even if it can be used for bad.

"Code is intangible, it can be multiple places" - you should study law, especially wrt existing legal precedents. If this were true, things like software patents would not be a problem, and I would evaluate how much you really can lay claim to your code, especially now Microsoft has played their hand here...

In a world where digital media and electronics remain an important part of every industry, and large rich tech companies exist, these are absolutely concerns, this is not some idle ideological patter. Your IP matters, (F)OSS has IP as well, that's part of why any of this matters.

Choose your blade wisely lest it cut you.