On 17 December 2015 at 17:29, Eliot Miranda eliot.miranda@gmail.com wrote:
So my concern is whether github is a safe long-term bet. Specifically what is there to prevent some third party from buying github, or of github going public and the board taking the decision, or github on its own, deciding to charge for hosting, keeping the data hostage to extract payment? What safeguards are in place to prevent this? I'm not interested in "this will never happen" arguments. I'm interested in hard data please.
There is nothing in place commercially to prevent this, but there are some technical safeguards. Principal among these is that a clone of a repo includes a full version history. One or more of us could choose to "git clone" regularly from the github repo, and treat those as backups against github becoming unavailable or unreasonable.
- Peter