On Centralisation of Code Hosting Infrastructure—An Argument

Jonas Schäfer
Mon, 08 Jul 2019 18:35:00 +0000
misc

Last year, we’ve seen GitHub getting bought by Microsoft. This event has caused the FLOSS community to run in circles panicingly, because Oh My God Microsoft. There was a certain exodus from GitHub to GitLab (who played the event masterfully, PR-wise). In that context, folks were (and still are) discussing the issue of centralisation of development infrastructure in the FLOSS communities. Here’s my argument.