Since Microsoft owns Github, Gitlab is Corp owned now since 2022, why are so many who preach privacy or using Linux, etc, still using a MS product?

Genuine questions. I’m assumming either familiarity & simplicity with GH or difficulty migrating elsewhere?

  • cecilkorik@piefed.ca
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    6 hours ago

    It’s trivial if your project is trivial. Once you’ve got development/CI/CD workflows, releases, issue management, community interaction, maybe even project management or Github pages (may god have mercy on your soul), it gets a lot less trivial.

    Git itself is a distributed version control system, moving it around is indeed trivial. It’s everything else that Github provides that is far less trivial, and they’ve worked hard on building the vendor lock-in elements for those things lately.

    • Azzu@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      6 hours ago

      True, but there are also exporter scripts for that stuff. Many projects have also mirroring already set up.