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darkcha0s on Oct 28, 2020 | parent | context | favorite | on: Wikimedia is moving to Gitlab

Let's not kid ourselves here, it's because GH is owned by MS.

bawolff on Oct 29, 2020 [–]

Its not. This isn't 2000s /. M$ is teh evil!!!11.

Its because GH is not available as self-hosted open source. Doesn't matter who owns it. Github was discussed and rejected by wikimedia back in 2012 as well, which was before MS bought them

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