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I just also want to make the argument that github is a walled garden, so is google code. They're proprietary systems that we're able to use and take advantage of. I use github and I love it, but it can still have the same potential issues as slack.

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I don't think that's true. GitHub is a frontend for the open git protocol. You can take your repositories and move somewhere else with next to no effort. Heck, almost all of my repositories exist in multiple situations.

All that being said, I've personally been doing more things on a private git server and less things on GitHub.

It's less of a walled garden if you don't use it for issues, wiki, etc. and just use it as a repo.

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