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Who Owns Your Code's Home? GitHub, GitLab and the Forge Landscape

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Pere Pages
Software Engineer
A stone blacksmith's forge at dusk: inside, a smith hammers a glowing graph of branching commit nodes on the anvil, blank ownership signs hang above the door, and a lone figure walks away down the road carrying only a small lantern

Nearly every software company keeps its most valuable asset on a platform somebody else owns: GitHub, GitLab, Bitbucket, or one of a handful of smaller hosts. Your git history can leave any of them in an afternoon — almost nothing else you built there can, so who owns the platform matters more than its feature list.