--- title: Open source developers urged to ditch GitHub following... description: Software Freedom Conservancy has called on the open source community to ditch GitHub after quitting the code-hosting platform itself. The move comes a week... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/open-source-developers-urged-to-ditch-github-following-copilot-launch-techcrunch-xquh198ok twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Open source developers urged to ditch GitHub following Copilot launch – TechCrunch | daily.dev og:description: Software Freedom Conservancy has called on the open source community to ditch GitHub after quitting the code-hosting platform itself. The move comes a week... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/open-source-developers-urged-to-ditch-github-following-copilot-launch-techcrunch-xquh198ok og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/XquH198OK.png og:image:alt: Open source developers urged to ditch GitHub following Copilot launch – TechCrunch og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Open source developers urged to ditch GitHub following Copilot launch – TechCrunch **[TechCrunch](https://daily.dev/sources/tc)** · 3 min read · 24 upvotes · 4 comments ## Summary Software Freedom Conservancy has called on the open source community to ditch GitHub after quitting the code-hosting platform itself. The move comes a week after Microsoft-owned GitHub launched the commercial version of Copilot. Copilot is an AI-powered pair-programmer that suggests software developers by suggesting lines or functions as they type. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: ## Community discussion Top comments from developers on daily.dev. **@andypiper** · 1 upvotes > It's a really tricky issue, putting everything into one (very functional) place, vs having more options. **@9662e103129a** · 1 upvotes > I would keep using Github only because of what I am working with and I dont think that moving ALL of my projects on Github to another open-source hosting service would make sense and I think that others would agree that its a hassle in order to move all of thier code **@soubinan** · 1 upvotes > Disclaimer: It is biased, I am a gitlab lover. > Really I have never considered github like the real opensource platform. A platform that is not open source itself and proning (forcing) open source for other was something so weird to me (pay for private repos... yes that has changed today [a bit...]) > I consider this as something normal coming from a company like Github. And specially when a "opensource platform" estimate it is a good idea to be acquired by Microsoft... Yeah Microsoft also has changed [a bit]. But still Microsoft anyway. **@shahzaib3551** · 0 upvotes > we should leave github --- Tags: [#general-programming](https://daily.dev/tags/general-programming), [#github](https://daily.dev/tags/github), [#open-source](https://daily.dev/tags/open-source), [#tech-news](https://daily.dev/tags/tech-news) [View this post on daily.dev](https://daily.dev/posts/open-source-developers-urged-to-ditch-github-following-copilot-launch-techcrunch-xquh198ok) ```json {"@context":"https://schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization","name":"daily.dev","url":"https://daily.dev","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://daily.dev/apple-touch-icon.png","width":180,"height":180},"sameAs":["https://twitter.com/dailydotdev","https://github.com/dailydotdev","https://www.linkedin.com/company/daily-dev-ltd"]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https://daily.dev/#website","url":"https://daily.dev","name":"daily.dev","publisher":{"@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization"},"potentialAction":{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https://daily.dev/search?q={search_term_string}"},"query-input":"required name=search_term_string"}}]} {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"TechArticle","headline":"Open source developers urged to ditch GitHub following Copilot launch – TechCrunch","url":"https://daily.dev/posts/open-source-developers-urged-to-ditch-github-following-copilot-launch-techcrunch-xquh198ok","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://daily.dev/posts/open-source-developers-urged-to-ditch-github-following-copilot-launch-techcrunch-xquh198ok"},"datePublished":"2022-07-01T10:50:20.883Z","dateModified":"2026-03-15T03:33:55.274Z","description":"Software Freedom Conservancy has called on the open source community to ditch GitHub after quitting the code-hosting platform itself. 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