Thank you for that word of reason. (In addition to your very well stated point, the whole point of Git is that it is a *distributed* RCS. I don’t think, anything less than a full scale planetary nuclear war could really wipe out the GHC source code at this point.) Manuel

20.12.2017 05:02 Gershom B :

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You're also assuming github doesn't suddenly pull a SourceForge (or a Gitorious for that matter). Business cares not what it steamrolls in the name of profit.

I fail to understand why, with multiple examples of the folly of this belief out there, people are still willing to bet on *this* company being *different* from all others and absolutely safe to trust.

What the heck is everyone arguing over? The initial statement was that even if we moved everything to github "We'd need mirroring anyway". That's it! There's no either/or involved. Just a statement that when you have data in one location, no matter how trustworthy, you want a backup as well. And ideally you want the backup under your control.

We can debate moving anything anywhere all we want, but the idea that stuff should also be backed up, regardless, in a source not under third-party control, seems inoffensive and besides the point.

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