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Go Away Microsoft! The Netherlands is Quietly Building Its Own GitHub Replacement (itsfoss.com)
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[–] timestatic@feddit.org 20 points 3 days ago (3 children)

Don't we have GitLab and Codeberg already? I mean I'm here for variety and choice but this isn't grounbreaking

[–] oce@jlai.lu 15 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Hi, I'm the brave soul reading it for you.

Currently, the Dutch government's code is spread across GitHub and GitLab, neither of which is under government oversight.

GitHub got ruled out first because it's proprietary software, which directly conflicts with the government's own policy of preferring open source when options are equally suitable.

GitLab made it further in the evaluation but didn't survive it either. The issue was its open-core model, where the Community Edition is genuinely free software but the Enterprise Edition is not.

Forgejo came out on top due to its fully free and open source nature. Licensed under GPLv3+ and governed by Codeberg e.V., a democratic nonprofit, it has no enterprise tier, proprietary upsell, or vendor lock-in problems.

[–] timestatic@feddit.org 2 points 2 days ago

Oh okay. The title insinuated that they were building their own replacement so I was confused. This seems much more reasonable

[–] polarity_inverter@startrek.website 18 points 3 days ago

uhm, this is about a Forgejo instance. Which Codeberg also uses...

[–] iglou@programming.dev 5 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

The idea is very likely sovereignty rather than just an alternative. Overheid.nl is a government website.