Re: Emacs packages, GitHub and software freedom

[Richard Stallman]

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  > This way you are just worsening the situation.  (But you obviously have
  > the freedom to do that.)  To increase the "contributor-base" outside
  > GitHub, we have to convince maintainers to move away from GitHub.

I agree.

But I should point out also that GitHub has several bad practices
that have done great harm to the free software commnity.
See https://www.gnu.org/software/repo-criteria-evaluation.html for
what they are.  These have happened for years, and we have urged people
to reject GitHub for years.

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Dr Richard Stallman (https://stallman.org)
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Founder, Free Software Foundation (https://fsf.org)
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