{"id":15615,"date":"2026-05-09T15:17:46","date_gmt":"2026-05-09T13:17:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/monodes.com\/predaelli\/?p=15615"},"modified":"2026-05-09T15:17:47","modified_gmt":"2026-05-09T13:17:47","slug":"not-the-reason","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/monodes.com\/predaelli\/2026\/05\/09\/not-the-reason\/","title":{"rendered":"Not the reason"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>People are leaving GitHub because it <a href=\"https:\/\/red-squares.cian.lol\/\">started going offline too much<\/a>. Actually the main reasons are that <strong>GitHub is basically proprietary software<\/strong> and <strong>GitHub Copilot has deeply concerning ethical concerns<\/strong>: it uses free and open-source software (FOSS) code for training without proper licensing or attribution. So<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading has-text-align-center has-x-large-font-size\"><a href=\"https:\/\/sfconservancy.org\/GiveUpGitHub\/\">Give Up GitHub<\/a><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Which means do not upload code to it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p class=\"excerpt\">People are leaving GitHub because it started going offline too much. Actually the main reasons are that GitHub is basically proprietary software and GitHub Copilot has deeply concerning ethical concerns: it uses free and open-source software (FOSS) code for training without proper licensing or attribution. So Give Up GitHub Which means do not upload code&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-p\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/monodes.com\/predaelli\/2026\/05\/09\/not-the-reason\/\">Read more &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":15616,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":4,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"anyone","activitypub_status":"federated","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[171],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15615","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ethics"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/monodes.com\/predaelli\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2026\/05\/red-squares.cian_.lol_.webp?fit=858%2C323&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6daft-43R","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":4363,"url":"https:\/\/monodes.com\/predaelli\/2018\/06\/05\/ask-a-swiss-top-5-free-github-alternatives-in-2018\/","url_meta":{"origin":15615,"position":0},"title":"Ask a Swiss: Top 5 free GitHub alternatives in 2018","author":"Paolo Redaelli","date":"2018-06-05","format":"link","excerpt":"Sorgente: Ask a Swiss: Top 5 free GitHub alternatives in 2018","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Proprietary software&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Proprietary software","link":"https:\/\/monodes.com\/predaelli\/category\/software\/proprietary-software\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":4365,"url":"https:\/\/monodes.com\/predaelli\/2018\/06\/05\/microsoft-github-and-the-flying-donkeys\/","url_meta":{"origin":15615,"position":1},"title":"Microsoft, GitHub and the flying donkeys","author":"Paolo Redaelli","date":"2018-06-05","format":false,"excerpt":"And Microsoft is all-in on open source Sorgente: Microsoft + GitHub = Empowering Developers - The Official Microsoft Blog Ok Nadella, prove it. 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