I don't think this is entirely the case. Even though many people would migrate to gitlab or other services, countless projects that are no longer being maintained or not very active would be lost.
Nov 27, 2019, 10:19 by g...@adamspiers.org: > On Wed, 27 Nov 2019 at 10:02, Jean Louis <> bugs@gnu.support> > wrote: > >> I don't trust Microsoft anything. If they purchased Github, it was not >> for reason to foster free software. It is apparent reason, why should >> they be doing that. Let us think logical. >> >> Most logical to me is that they have long term to kill Github just >> like Google does with various competitive companies, please see >> https://killedbygoogle.com/ >> > > Killing GitHub would actually help Free Software, because then most > Free Software projects on there would migrate to GitLab and other > more free git hosting platforms. That already happened to a smaller > extent when Microsoft bought GitHub; there was a noticeable exodus. > So in fact the purchase has already helped Free Software :-) >
