“Why don’t scientists use modern tools like GitHub, instead of these crap bespoke ones? They shouldn’t waste their time duplicating effort.”

“Why are scientists using inappropriate tools? These are for commercial use only!”

In practice, GitHub works fine for collaborative code projects and sharing data over the next few years. If you’re looking to store large amounts of data over long periods, you’re right.

If GitHub don’t want to support science (they’re just a business) then they should stop giving free products to academia eh.