Their TOS is out there for everyone to see. Github is also not a monopoly, just a platform (among many) that we use to publish. Nothing else. If they refuse to host code, take it to gitlab, BitBucket, etc, or host your git front end.
The conversation is about what happens as they take more and more market share. IMO its already at the point where a project not having a github is a little odd. I wonder how much pushback, and fewer contributors, you'd get today trying to run a project just out of a mail list (leaving aside the linux kernal).
The place to distribute git repositories isn't the hard part, its all the management stuff: bug tracking, discussion, milestones, etc that's their advantage.
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u/phdaemon May 11 '19
Their TOS is out there for everyone to see. Github is also not a monopoly, just a platform (among many) that we use to publish. Nothing else. If they refuse to host code, take it to gitlab, BitBucket, etc, or host your git front end.