Leave GitHub: a few quotes about why it's more than a good idea
I want it to be better, but I also want to code. And I can't code with GitHub anymore. I'm sorry. After 18 years, I've got to go. I'd love to come back one day, but this will have to be predicated on real results and improvements, not words and promises.
—Mitchell Hashimoto, Ghostty
- GitHub has been losing focus on being a good code management platform, and has instead been focused on pushing AI tooling in ways that I believe could be counterproductive, and a general hindrance to open source maintainership. - I was unable to make changes to our website repository due to (Git-LFS) activity limits which could be consumed by any public person/actor (and therefore were completely out of our control). - Codeberg, a non-profit community-led organization that’s providing a service using an open source solution, is much more aligned to the values that we want to support and portray in BookStack relative to Microsoft (GitHub’s owner).
—Dan Brown, BookStack
The tangible one that tipped me to finally move: **I'm upset about GitHub Copilot.** It's fairly well known that Copilot can reproduce significant pieces of open-source code, stripped of their license. I'm moving to make it a **little bit harder** to have Copilot train on my code. This is perhaps a futile protest, but it's what I can do an individual. Writing about this is another aspect of what I can do.
The short version: GitHub is owned by Microsoft. Microsoft uses code hosted on GitHub to train AI models, including GitHub Copilot. I did not consent to my code being used this way. Neither did millions of other developers whose work now powers a $19/month subscription service.
Auf Wiedersehen, GitHub
—Thomas Dohmke, former CEO of GitHub
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