GNU's 'What's Wrong with GitHub' Sparks Fresh HN Debate
signa11 · hn · 2026-10-11
Hacker News discusses GNU's classic essay "What's Wrong with GitHub": GitHub is proprietary, fosters centralized dependence on one company, binds contributors' work to a non-free service, and its Copilot raises concerns about training commercial models on hosted code without permission. The thread weighs real-world lock-in against Forgejo/GitLab/Codeberg alternatives and the tradeoff between convenience and software freedom.
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