Codeberg is a non profit under German law. There won’t be openai “non profit but not really” bullshit.
And your point about CI Integration ins good example: There is no “free” CI.
GitHub lets you pay with their vendor lock-in and your data.
If that’s okay with you, that’s okay with me - but as a programming community as a whole ,especially FOSS side, this needs to go away.
The best case for me is that GitHub dies and its death is a wake-up call to decouple collaboration layers in a way that keeps them modular enough to not again rub into “too big or integrated to fail”.
And yes, I’m aware that this is 2/3 day dreaming. But that’s my best case association anyway :D
That’s fair it has loss leaders and network effects more so. The vendor lock in is non-git, non-ci side. So issues, orgs, etc.
Actually you can see where they embraced opensource vs extending solely by the degree it is vendor locked.
If they stole it, it’s a loss leader, if they made it, it’s vendor locked.
Yeah I would say issues are minimal lock-in since they barely have any features (just labels I guess?) and can easily be exported. CI must be the biggest lock-in. If you have a complex CI system that makes use of lots of third party actions it could be a decent amount of work to migrate it. But not a huge amount.
I fundamentally disagree on your conclusion.
Codeberg is a non profit under German law. There won’t be openai “non profit but not really” bullshit.
And your point about CI Integration ins good example: There is no “free” CI. GitHub lets you pay with their vendor lock-in and your data.
If that’s okay with you, that’s okay with me - but as a programming community as a whole ,especially FOSS side, this needs to go away.
The best case for me is that GitHub dies and its death is a wake-up call to decouple collaboration layers in a way that keeps them modular enough to not again rub into “too big or integrated to fail”.
And yes, I’m aware that this is 2/3 day dreaming. But that’s my best case association anyway :D
What vendor lock-in? GitHub barely has any.
That’s fair it has loss leaders and network effects more so. The vendor lock in is non-git, non-ci side. So issues, orgs, etc. Actually you can see where they embraced opensource vs extending solely by the degree it is vendor locked.
If they stole it, it’s a loss leader, if they made it, it’s vendor locked.
Yeah I would say issues are minimal lock-in since they barely have any features (just labels I guess?) and can easily be exported. CI must be the biggest lock-in. If you have a complex CI system that makes use of lots of third party actions it could be a decent amount of work to migrate it. But not a huge amount.