Re: I decide to support Marak event, I'm going to delete all my Emacs extensions on GitHub

[Jean Louis]

* Christopher M. Miles <numbchild@gmail.com> [2022-01-10 09:19]:
> 
> After sawing Marak result, I decided to give up GitHub, delete all
> my repositories on GitHub.

Congratulations. Awareness is important.
> 
> Most part of my repositories are Emacs extensions, so I email here, hope GNU 
> Emacs community has a
> simple way to host and upload my extensions code.
> 
> I will delete all repositories in 3 days, and only leave on README says "I 
> don't like GitHub's Terms
> of Service which will delete your account if you delete your code." Sorry 
> maybe this break my
> extensions' users experience. But I need to express my attitude to this 
> movement with my tiny
> personal power.
> 
> Background:
> https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/dev-corrupts-npm-libs-colors-and-faker-breaking-thousands-of-apps/
> 
> #+begin_quote
> "Removing your own code from [GitHub] is a violation of their Terms of 
> Service? WTF? This is a
> kidnapping. We need to start decentralizing the hosting of free software 
> source code," responded
> software engineer Sergio Gómez.
> #+end_quote

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-- 
Jean

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