Re:Fosshost Is Shutting Down
by MaxBarraclough on Sunday December 04, 2022 @05:59AM
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edit: I mistook Fosshost for a forge, but they were more like a cloud provider.
SourceForge used to hope everyone would think that way. Fortunately
their abusive [0] dominance didn't last.
As well as a general anti-monoculture argument, [1] there's a case to be made that Free and Open Source projects should live on 'forges' which are themselves Free and Open Source. [2][3] Also, in the specific case of GitHub, a lot of people are unhappy about the Copilot project.
Also on this general topic I recommend this hour-long discussion video [4].
SourceForge used to hope everyone would think that way. Fortunately their abusive [0] dominance didn't last.
As well as a general anti-monoculture argument, [1] there's a case to be made that Free and Open Source projects should live on 'forges' which are themselves Free and Open Source. [2][3] Also, in the specific case of GitHub, a lot of people are unhappy about the Copilot project.
Also on this general topic I recommend this hour-long discussion video [4].
[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SourceForge#Controversies
[1] https://nedbatchelder.com/blog/201405/github_monoculture.htm...
[2] https://drewdevault.com/2022/03/29/free-software-free-infras...
[3] https://ntietz.com/blog/moving-off-github/
[4] https://spacepub.space/w/dPKZMydUMLqEVkK7Kuy4ir