<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Dec 19, 2017 at 4:30 AM, Sven Panne <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:svenpanne@gmail.com" target="_blank">svenpanne@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote"><div>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... ;-)</div></div></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>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.</div><div><br></div><div>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.</div><div><br></div></div>-- <br><div class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div>brandon s allbery kf8nh sine nomine associates</div><div><a href="mailto:allbery.b@gmail.com" target="_blank">allbery.b@gmail.com</a> <a href="mailto:ballbery@sinenomine.net" target="_blank">ballbery@sinenomine.net</a></div><div>unix, openafs, kerberos, infrastructure, xmonad <a href="http://sinenomine.net" target="_blank">http://sinenomine.net</a></div></div></div>
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