From: nospam@example.net   
      
   On Wed, 19 Feb 2025, Salvador Mirzo wrote:   
      
   > not@telling.you.invalid (Computer Nerd Kev) writes:   
   >   
   > [...]   
   >   
   >> Quite mysteriously, all sorts of otherwise respectable open-source   
   >> software developers are happy to use GitHub even though it's owned   
   >> by M$. So even having ditched their software long ago, M$ are now   
   >> very hard to avoid online if, ironically, you want to use, and   
   >> especially work on, open-source software. I find that truely   
   >> unfathomable, but others barely seem to see my problem with it.   
   >   
   > That's well pointed out.  And there are alternatives such as hosting   
   > your own Forgejo.  Moving a git repository is easy.  And you can even   
   > put a link on your old git repository saying---we're here now.   
   >   
   > tallman has been saying it for decades: people prefer convenience.   
      
   This is the truth! It is a sad truth.   
      
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