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title: "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
source_url: https://techcrunch.com/2022/07/01/open-source-developers-urged-to-ditch-github-following-copilot-launch/
type: article
source: "TechCrunch"
published: 2022-07-01T10:50:20.883Z
updated: 2026-03-15T03:33:55.274Z
tags: ["general-programming", "github", "open-source", "tech-news"]
reading_time: 3
upvotes: 24
comments: 4
language: en
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# 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

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## 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

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