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All the articles linked include sentiment I simply don't care about.</div>
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Not to denigrate any of the Slackbuild maintainers but a huge majority of their scripts behave incredibly similar. I appreciate the verification work dearly but I'm guessing the coding work is only time consuming (or frustrating) but not something people are
losing money over. ("AI theft")</div>
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Github isn't stealing anything from us. If anything, they're a high ranking search result that points people toward Slackbuilds and Slackware use in general.</div>
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<div id="divRplyFwdMsg" dir="ltr"><font face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="font-size:11pt" color="#000000"><b>From:</b> SlackBuilds-users <slackbuilds-users-bounces@slackbuilds.org> on behalf of Shahab Vahedi via SlackBuilds-users <slackbuilds-users@slackbuilds.org><br>
<b>Sent:</b> Tuesday, August 19, 2025 1:05:36 AM<br>
<b>To:</b> SlackBuilds.org Users List <slackbuilds-users@slackbuilds.org><br>
<b>Cc:</b> Shahab Vahedi <list+sbo@vahedi.org><br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: [Slackbuilds-users] stop mirroring to github~</font>
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<div class="PlainText">I don't buy into this "it's happening eveywhere, so sit back and let go!" sort of attitude. Even before shit hitting the fans like this with the copilot, GitHub was not a good choice for mirroring, especially after it was acquired [1][2][3].<br>
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I switched to Slackware years ago, because I found its user base with a healthy attitude: Having its own values rather than following the fads and succumbing to sensationalism. I liked, and still like, the distro, but stayed for the people. Specifically, for
people on this mailing list.<br>
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But seriously, why is GitHub used? Is it because that it's gratis or have some sort of CI? I for one am willing to donate and/or contribute for setting up a CI on a federated server. Although I don't have much experience in that area yet.<br>
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-Shahab<br>
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<a href="https://sfconservancy.org/blog/2022/jun/30/give-up-github-launch/">https://sfconservancy.org/blog/2022/jun/30/give-up-github-launch/</a><br>
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<a href="https://unixdigest.com/articles/important-open-source-projects-should-not-use-github.html">https://unixdigest.com/articles/important-open-source-projects-should-not-use-github.html</a><br>
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<a href="https://sanctum.geek.nz/why-not-github.html">https://sanctum.geek.nz/why-not-github.html</a><br>
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