On April 1, 2016 2:42:57 PM AST, Fabio Pesari <[email protected]> wrote: >The recent left-pad fiasco on NPM just showed that in order for free >software to be reliable, it must be stored permanently (since the >license allows it). > >Github, the most popular project hosting platform at the moment, allows >users to delete their repositories. That's very dangerous considering >that many programs that aren't packaged by distros will likely be lost >forever if their developers ever decide to delete their repos (and that >can happen for a number of reasons, I myself deleted some repos in the >past); and since Github (unlike Savannah) is a for-profit site, there >is >no guarantee that the data will always be available to everyone, or >that >they won't shut down (it already happened with Google Code, BerliOS and >Gitorious, after all). > >I think developers should be allowed to abandon and disown their >programs, but deleting them can only do more harm than good. I've >already seen many programs become lost forever
I see you point and have experienced this myself, but sometimes I found they had just moved. Also as a beginner I published much broken unusable code, I don't see why this should remain available forever. I'm not disagreeing with you, I just don't think its that simple.
