twtxt.net prologic https://twtxt.net/user/prologic/twtxt.txt @ 2021-07-11T00:00:00Z > published Twt Blog prologic/2021/07/11/why-i-no-longer-trust-github: Why I no longer trust Github
This is a blog post on why I no longer trust Github that Microsoft bought a few years ago (for a few billion) with my code. I will outlines the events that occurred, the thinking that lead me to the decisions that I made and my final thoughts.
Rest assured, I will continue to contribute to open source, write open source software, I just won’t host it on any corporate owned “Cloud” (SaaS) code hosting platform. I will self-host*.
Those of you who don’ know, my name is James Mills. I’ve been with Github since ~2008. I started contributing to open source and writing open source projects since ~2004 with my first project being a Python library that later turned into the circuits event-driven asynchronous library used by many (well before asyncio became a thing in Python many years later).
I’ve worked in numerous companies in Australia being a Backend Developer, Full Stack Engineer, DevOps Engineer, System Administrator, Network Administrator, Helpdesk Support and many other roles over the years. I’ve worked at Facebook for over 3 years as a Production Engineer where I earned much respect for my ability to “Get Stuff Done”™.
