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the most important ones:
<ul>
<li><a href="https://github.com/features/copilot" rel="nofollow">Copilot
<li><p><a href="https://github.com/features/copilot" rel="nofollow">Copilot
is a for-profit product</a> &mdash; developed and marketed by Microsoft
and their GitHub subsidiary &mdash; that uses Artificial Intelligence (AI)
techniques to automatically generate code interactively for developers.
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issues,
the <a href="https://sfconservancy.org/blog/2022/feb/03/github-copilot-copyleft-gpl/">ethical
implications of GitHub's choice to use copylefted code</a> in the service
of creating proprietary software are grave. </li>
of creating proprietary software are grave.</p> </li>
<li>In 2020, the community discovered that
<li><p>In 2020, the community discovered that
GitHub <a href="https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2020/01/ice-contract-github-sparks-developer-protests/604339/">has
a for-profit software services contract with the USA Immigration and Customs
Enforcement (ICE)</a>. Activists, including some GitHub employees, have been
@ -72,18 +72,18 @@ reply has been that their parent company, Microsoft, has sold Microsoft Word
for years to ICE without any public complaints. They claim that this somehow
justifies <em>even more</em> business with an agency whose policies are
problematic. Regardless of your views on ICE and its behavior, GitHub's
ongoing <a href="https://www.latimes.com/business/technology/story/2020-06-12/github-ceo-black-lives-matter-employees-demand-end-ice-contract">dismissive and disingenuous</a> responses to the activists who raised this important issue show that GitHub puts its profits above concerns from the community.</li>
ongoing <a href="https://www.latimes.com/business/technology/story/2020-06-12/github-ceo-black-lives-matter-employees-demand-end-ice-contract">dismissive and disingenuous</a> responses to the activists who raised this important issue show that GitHub puts its profits above concerns from the community.</p></li>
<li>While GitHub pretends to be pro-FOSS
<li><p>While GitHub pretends to be pro-FOSS
(like <a href="https://lwn.net/Articles/17822/">SourceForge before
them</a>), their entire hosting site is, itself, proprietary and/or
trade-secret software. We appreciate that GitHub allows some of its
employees to sometimes contribute FOSS to upstream projects, but our
community has been burned so many times before by companies that claim to
support FOSS, while actively convincing the community to rely on their
proprietary software. We won't let GitHub burn us in this same way!</li>
proprietary software. We won't let GitHub burn us in this same way!</p></li>
<li>GitHub differs from most of its peers in the FOSS project hosting
<li><p>GitHub differs from most of its peers in the FOSS project hosting
industry, as GitHub does not even offer any self-hosting FOSS option.
Their <em>entire</em> codebase is secret. For example, while we have our
complaints about GitLab's business model of parallel &ldquo;Community&rdquo:
@ -94,17 +94,17 @@ codebase as FOSS for self-hosting and &ldquo;dog fooding&rdquo; by using
their own platform to develop its software in public! In addition,
non-profit FOSS hosting sites such
as <a href="https://codeberg.org">CodeBerg</a> also develop their platform
publicly as FOSS.</li>
publicly as FOSS.</p></li>
<li>GitHub has long sought to discredit copyleft generally. Their various
<li><p>GitHub has long sought to discredit copyleft generally. Their various
CEOs have often spoken loudly and negatively about copyleft, including their
founder (and former CEO)
devoting <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-bAAlPXB2-c">his entire
OSCON keynote on attacking copyleft and the GPL</a>. There are also examples
of <a href="https://github.com/BenKallos/legislation/issues/2#issue-46911010">GitHub
employees filing bug tickets</a> in copylefted projects to cajole them to
change to non-copyleft licenses.</li>
<li>GitHub is wholly owned by Microsoft, a company whose executives have historically repeatedly attacked copyleft licensing.</li>
change to non-copyleft licenses.</p></li>
<li><p>GitHub is wholly owned by Microsoft, a company whose executives have historically repeatedly attacked copyleft licensing.</p></li>
</ul>
<h2>How Do I Give Up GitHub?</h2>
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even while you're still a GitHub user. (We'll publish longer tutorials in
future about these and other ways to help.)
<ul>
<li><a href="https://sfconservancy.org/docs/SupportGiveUpGitHub-README-snippet.md">Add
<li><p><a href="https://sfconservancy.org/docs/SupportGiveUpGitHub-README-snippet.md">Add
this section to your README.md</a> to share your concerns about GitHub
with your users.</li>
with your users.</p></li>
<li>Respectfully and kindly ask, before you contribute to a project on
<li><p>Respectfully and kindly ask, before you contribute to a project on
GitHub, if they could provide alternative means to contribute other than
using GitHub.</li>
using GitHub.</p></li>
<li>Explain to your employer the dangers of relying on GitHub's proprietary
vendor lock-in products.</li>
<li><p>Explain to your employer the dangers of relying on GitHub's proprietary
vendor lock-in products.</p></li>
<li>Join
<li><p>Join
the <a href="https://lists.sfconservancy.org/mailman/listinfo/give-up-github">give-up-github
mailing list</a> and start threads about your difficulties leaving GitHub.
This will help us explore solutions with you and add material to this
page.</li>
page.</p></li>
</ul>
</p>