On Tue, Dec 26, 2017 at 5:10 AM, Richard Hipp <d...@sqlite.org> wrote:
> > Finally, the use of GitHub would create a reliance on an outside > company over which we have no influence. The people who run GitHub > today seem like great folks. But the company might be sold or fall > under new management tomorrow, and the friendly and open policies that > govern GitHub today might change in an instant. Fossil, on the other > hand, is very simple to self-host on a $5/month VPS. (SQLite uses > https://www.linode.com/ for its main servers and > https://www.digitalocean.com for the https://www3.sqlite.org/ backup. > There are lots of others.) > > And there's nothing stopping anyone from hosting their own git repositories with or without a web interface. I have a backup repos at work, on my home server and github. A large list of extra tools ... probably at least one has immediate descendents available. https://git.wiki.kernel.org/index.php/Interfaces,_frontends,_and_tools > So, given that Fossil is freer than Git (BSD vs. GPL), that Fossil > embodies all of the functionality of both Git and GitHub, that Fossil > is more capable than Git/GitHub, that Fossil has a friendly user > interface than Git, and that Fossil is very easy to self-host and thus > frees you of any dependencies on third-party companies, the question > becomes: > > Why aren't you moving all of your GitHub projects over to Fossil! > > -- > D. Richard Hipp > d...@sqlite.org > _______________________________________________ > sqlite-users mailing list > sqlite-users@mailinglists.sqlite.org > http://mailinglists.sqlite.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/sqlite-users > _______________________________________________ sqlite-users mailing list sqlite-users@mailinglists.sqlite.org http://mailinglists.sqlite.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/sqlite-users
