> Regardless of whether GitHub is here to stay or projects find new homes, what I would like to see is some public, boring, well-funded archive for Open Source software. Something with the power of an endowment or public funding to keep it afloat. Something whose job is not to win the developer productivity market but just to make sure that the most important things we create do not disappear.

There is already such an organization in Europe:

https://www.softwareheritage.org/

Underfunded relative to the task, and the (accelerating) speed of free software production.

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Tomte 4 hours ago | parent | next [-]

They are getting access to a supercomputer soon, and will be scanning all their archive for licensing information (using scancode and ort), security information, and other metadata.

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dewey 4 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

The top sponsors are quite telling: US tech companies and hyperscalers, Abu Dhabi, French Government and some french universities.

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insane_dreamer 4 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Codeberg?

	▲	IshKebab 40 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		The problem is GitHub spends on the order of $100m/year on providing free CI. Nobody else can compete with that. It's possible they could make it shit enough that a large number of projects will say "screw this we'll just pay for CI", but people really like free (and easy!) things so I think we are a long way from that point.