Why use Github, why not use Savannah, others, or self-host?

[strypey]

@AverageGoogleHater

it should be completely up to the developer how they would like to manage their product/project. So if it has to be evil Github then well. That’s their choice.

What you’re missing is that they’re not just making a choice for themselves, but for anyone who might want to post or comment on an issue, etc. As @Licaon_Kter put it a few comments back;

@Licaon_Kter

Every day you are still a Github user you keep your contributors prisoners too!

@AverageGoogleHater

They are people trying to get through the day and make ends meet just like everyone else.

Developers can do that just as effectively on a code forge that doesn’t lock-in and DataFarm anyone using it, nor misuse their contributions to “train” MOLEs.

[Leonardo]

@anon46495926

Why isn’t “developed on non-free systems” an anti-feature?

Because it doesn’t affect the user’s in any way.

F-Droid takes the source code and compiles it to make sure that nothing is added or removed from the source code and that this can be verified through reproducible builds.