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  • itslilith@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    9 months ago

    In what circumstances would you develop non-free code and still have the need to pick a provider? Don’t companies have regulations usually, so your have to use either their own hosted instance or GitHub enterprise?

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      9 months ago

      I use GitHub private repos for my home configuration stuff. So it’s not open source since I’m the only one using it and I don’t want someone else to know how to attack my network.

      For certain configurations, self hosting doesn’t make sense. For people like me, who would rather spend his time doing the stuff I care about instead of maintaining the stuff I don’t care about, I’m okay giving Microsoft some “control” over my code for the convenience.

      That said, I am thinking about moving my FOSS code off of GitHub since that is an option. I’d have to see their CI/CD pipelines though.

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      9 months ago

      i work for some people who don’t host their own gitlab/gitea/whatever and use the paid tier from github or gitlab. they could not use codeberg.

      • itslilith@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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        9 months ago

        That’s what I said, they use paid GitHub, so you as the worker don’t get the choice, you need to use whatever they do

        Meanwhile, if you start your own project, you need to choose a platform, but you also need to choose a license, so nothing is stopping you from using a free licence and picking Codeberg

        I struggle to see many cases where someone that cares about FOSS gets to choose between GitHub, Codeberg etc, but doesn’t get to choose the license of their project. As an employee you get neither, for your own projects you get both.