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There is no news other than this individual post. I wish he could describe it more. It says it is free but where is the github page for it?

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> It says it is free but where is the github page for it?

Not sure if serious, but you do realise that free is not at all about having a GitHub page?

Maxim has been working on nginx for years and just forked the project so that he can continue working on it. The license remains the same as the original nginx project and you can already download its sources here: https://freenginx.org/en/download.html

I honestly didn't see the download button. I thought the web page was broken because the design looked super ugly and not trustworthy. My first instinct was to ask for a repo here.

They don’t use GitHub

http://freenginx.org/hg/nginx

There's a world of software out there that's not on github or using git.

"I don't always git clone, but when I do, it's hg clone"

I have mixed feeling about github's dominance. They have created facebook for devs and uplifted collaboration of software to a high level, but I can't help but feel like I'm renting storage space in someone else's private shop when I use them. Yes you get engagement, yes you get one link to share your dev profile and timeline grid in CV, but it's a for profit business that is run by MS.

>>I have mixed feeling about github's dominance.

Yep - I remember what happened with Source Forge/VA Linux. I actually paid for github when it first came out, just to fund it.

Still makes me nervous tbh

Good old times, freshmeat.net also ;)

I'm much less concerned with this because github seems to have to lowest vendor lock-in of any platform. If you want to switch platforms, it should be as easy as changing your upstream and push. Switching from MySpace to Facebook never looked like that.

Sure you can switch, will others too? That's the problem, when something gets dominating critical mass individual actions stop to matter. You can replace Google with another search engine as easily as opening a new tab, does the dominance make it any less scary?

“but I can't help but feel like I'm renting storage space in someone else's private shop when I use them”

I’ve been looking for the words to put to that feeling myself but was unable to pinpoint it so well.

I loved GitHub at first. “Look at all the cool stuff I made” was kinda a way of showing my capabilities (and is still a great way today!) but somewhere along the way it became a platform for egos and star stroking and blind following into the nights. They improved their search but it could be so much better. Not everyone has a graphic designer on staff to make pretty README.md’s

I was working at a startup where a potential VC sent over their questionnaire with a question of where the github repo was located. Since we were not using github, and using a totally different git repo service, I was forced to move the repo to github just because of this question.

Some people just don't have a clue and only know buzzwords

Not everyone uses GitHub. They are using something else: https://freenginx.org/en/docs/contributing_changes.html

http://freenginx.org/hg/nginx

They are using mercurial! This is such a breath of fresh air.

Fossil would be a breath of fresh air, and I use mercurial at work.

Source code repo is here, not everything need a Github account to be free: http://freenginx.org/hg/nginx

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