The consolidation of Github as a monopoly with nearly each and every free software project living or moving there has been a problem for a long time.
By working on frankly a lot of projects on Github I’ve been a part of this problem myself, but it was always hard not to acknowledge that this centralization is harmful. Github is a proprietary platform with proprietary extensions - extremely convenient, too convenient for people to want to move. Which means that it’s a 100% perfect match for Microsoft acquisition. But really, this acquisition is not even an acerbation, it’s just the natural consequence of the centralization that has been staring us in the face for too long: No field should rely on one single vendor with a near-monopoly.
Let’s all migrate away and let this behemoth splinter, but let it splinter in a million little pieces rather that three or four large ones. To hell with monopolies and single points of failure.
