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I believe the mentioned article answers your question: GitHub is essentially SaaS. A proprietary one. Hosting services in general are not SaaSS. Maybe some specific thing about GitHub is SaaSS; if so, can you explain the details? And what do you mean when you say it is "proprietary"? We don't have a definition of "proprietary" for services. Apparently the JavaScript programs it sends to the user are proprietary, and that is a real issue, but these programs are not the same as the service per se. Your git workflow becomes dependent on GitHub's features and infrastructure, Could you explain concretely (to me, maybe not to the list) what this means? I have never used GitHub, and I could not easily try. hence you're denied your freedom (e.g. GitHub could send account details to a 3rd party, etc. just like many other services, or vendor-lock you from easily migrating your workflow to other git hosting services). Any service can give information about you to big brother. It is a common drawback of all services, so it does not make GitHub worse than any other service. What specific sort of vendor-lock do you see as a danger in regard to GitHub? -- Dr Richard Stallman President, Free Software Foundation 51 Franklin St Boston MA 02110 USA www.fsf.org www.gnu.org Skype: No way! That's nonfree (freedom-denying) software. Use Ekiga or an ordinary phone call. _______________________________________________ foundation-list mailing list foundation-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-list