Jonas Schäfer

Posts tagged with decentralisation

1. On Centralisation of Code Hosting Infrastructure—An Argument

   Last year, we’ve seen GitHub getting bought by Microsoft. This event has caused the FLOSS community to run in circles panicingly, because Oh My God Microsoft. There was a certain exodus from GitHub to GitLab (who played the event masterfully, PR-wise). In that context, folks were (and still are) discussing the issue of centralisation of development infrastructure in the FLOSS communities. Here’s my argument.

   published on Monday, 08 July 2019 in category Arguments with tags

   • programming
   • infrastructure
   • decentralisation
   • xmpp

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