nixCraft 🐧
@nixCraft@mastodon.social
Once upon a time, SourceForge was a leader in FLOSS code hosting. It lost the battle to GitHub and others. Now GitHub is part of a bigger corporation with a questionable history. I guess history repeats itself. This is why FLOSS folks should build its own core infrastructure with 0 dependencies on big tech.
Maybe good folks from the EU can provide grants. I don't know, and I don't have answers to all the questions, nor can I (or anyone) predict the future.
C.W. Smith 🇺🇲
@CWSmith@social.mechanizedarmadillo.com
@nixCraft@mastodon.social
End of the day, any centralized repo will be at risk. Unfortunately the truth is maintaining digital infrastructure costs a lot of money.
Microsoft bought Github, still requires projects be open source and forkable, but also scans for AI. I won't talk consent because depending on the License there might be a loophole there.
Truth it the best way is to do with repos the same thing we do in Federated systems. A lot of small servers maintained by a team that can afford the time and money to do so.
