• Ephera@lemmy.ml
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        Well, the point is that GitHub is owned by Microsoft, so if they’re already developing an alternative to a Microsoft service, they would probably want to also use an alternative to a Microsoft service for their source code hosting.

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          They want to be less dependent on US tech. Using something whose code is hosted on US tech is far less dependent than using something whose entire everything is American.

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            Yeah, I understand that it isn’t as bad, but it doesn’t explain why they didn’t go with something that’s entirely non-bad. We have the technology.