It’s still baffling to me how many FOSS projects still use that platform, they’ve done very well keeping the ‘Microsoft’ prefix out of people’s sight.
Codeberg does seem to be gaining some momentum with FOSS projects now though, at long last.
Codeberg does seem to be gaining some momentum with FOSS projects now though, at long last.
Added to that, it has the largest community of developers, and those who would potentially participate in FOSS projects likely already have an account. It's where people already are and what they are familiar with.
(I have contributed to a few FOSS projects on github.)
From operating systems, programming languages, frameworks, compilers, editors, whatever.
While placing the code in Codeberg only to get warm feelings.
The beloved projects were already successful without those paychecks, hence why those companies took an interest in them in the first place and didn't (at least publicly) try to create their own alternatives knowing that they wouldnt be able to compete.
Since the companies have been in the extend phase of their EEE logic, their contributions to open source have been helpful, granted.
> 1998: Many major companies such as IBM, Compaq and Oracle announce their support for Linux.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Linux
The C language it was written on, has come into existence thanks to AT&T paychecks, landing on Ken Thompson and Brian Kernighan bank accounts.
> 1996: Version 2.0 of the Linux kernel is released. The kernel can now serve several processors at the same time using symmetric multiprocessing (SMP), and thereby becomes a serious alternative for many companies.
Linux had been around for half a decade at that point, and companies took note and reacted accordingly in 1998.
Only after those guys stepped in, it matured to something that would compete with Solaris, during the 2000's dotcom wave.
They are trying to advocate for software that doesn’t hurt its users in a sea of enshittifaction.
They should stop because corporations produce powerful software?