On Tue, Dec 19, 2017 at 4:30 AM, Sven Panne <svenpa...@gmail.com> wrote:

> I think this is a question of perspective: Having the master repository on
> GitHub doesn't mean you are in immediate danger or lose your "family
> jewels". IMHO it's quite the contrary: I'm e.g. sure that in case that
> something goes wrong with GitHub, there is far more manpower behind it to
> fix that than for any self-hosted repository. And you can of course have
> some mirror of your GitHub repo in case of e.g. an earthquake/meteor/... in
> the San Francisco area... ;-)
>

You're also assuming github doesn't suddenly pull a SourceForge (or a
Gitorious for that matter). Business cares not what it steamrolls in the
name of profit.

I fail to understand why, with multiple examples of the folly of this
belief out there, people are still willing to bet on *this* company being
*different* from all others and absolutely safe to trust.

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