On 4 March 2024 22:26:37 GMT, dan...@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
