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848 points thefilmore | 2 comments | 13 May 25 05:23 UTC | HN request time: 0.686s | source
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reddalo ◴[13 May 25 05:56 UTC] No.43969945[source]▶
Why GitHub? If they truly cared about open-source they would've chosen something else, such as a self-hosted Forgejo [1], or its most common public instance Codeberg [2].

[1] https://forgejo.org/ [2] https://codeberg.org/

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1. freddie_mercury ◴[13 May 25 06:08 UTC] No.43970001[source]▶
To assert that an organisation doesn't "truly" care about open source simply because they've chosen a tool that isn't is ridiculous.

Even before this Mozilla almost certainly used hundreds of closed source tools, including things like Slack, Excel, Anaplan, Workday, etc.

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2. Lightkey ◴[13 May 25 08:36 UTC] No.43970807[source]▶
Using proprietary software in-house for management is one thing, forcing outside contributors to use them, another. That is why they went out of their way to avoid Slack when the time came to leave IRC behind and they chose Matrix instead.