Re: is this thing on?
| From: | Derick Rethans | Date: | Mon, 04 Mar 2024 22:53:15 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: is this thing on? | ||
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On 4 March 2024 22:26:37 GMT, daniil@daniil.it wrote:
>> Has Microsoft made a commitment to support open source forever? I mean MS owns Github, what
>> ensures that it will stay free?
>
>This is a silly argument, if that were the case, maybe the VCS should move back to a self-hosted
>instance too?
The VSC part from github (hosting our code), can very easily be ported. Issues, discussions etc can
not.
>Jokes aside, if Microsoft suddenly decides to throw away or to charge for github, one of their
>biggest assets after Windows and OpenAI, PHP would have bigger problems than RFCs being managed on
>the github issue tracker.
With the ongoing enshittification of most of the Internet due to advertising and tracking, we'd
be negligent not hosting and owning our own content (including our issue tracker, but that ship has
sailed now).
Email has been around for half a century. Will things like Slack, Discord, and the like still be
operational and allow access to our archives in another 25 years? I'm almost certain it
won't be.
cheers
Derick