• Ephera@lemmy.ml
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      22 hours ago

      Well, the point is that GitHub is owned by Microsoft, so if they’re already developing an alternative to a Microsoft service, they would probably want to also use an alternative to a Microsoft service for their source code hosting.

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        20 hours ago

        They want to be less dependent on US tech. Using something whose code is hosted on US tech is far less dependent than using something whose entire everything is American.

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          15 hours ago

          Yeah, I understand that it isn’t as bad, but it doesn’t explain why they didn’t go with something that’s entirely non-bad. We have the technology.