Nothing should be hosted on GitHub anymore. But of all the stuff that does get put there anyway, copyright-infringing vibecoded BS is the most appropriate. Slop and MS deserve each other.

Don’t let perfect be the enemy of good. A fish gotta swim, naw mean?

GitHub is much more well known. If you are aware of the Facebook “network effect,” GitHub has this same trait. By hosting on GitHub, these new projects will simply attract more developers and more users. Most users will not download programs if the downloads aren’t on an official website or GitHub releases.

By virtue of being distributed, git ensures that there are multiple copies of the source code on multiple machines. GitHub taking down a repository doesn’t delete the code forever; developers are free to go host their project somewhere else at that point. It’s also worth noting that a majority these projects ARE legal, and the DMCA notices GitHub receives are, for the most part, illegal. It’s simply that GitHub and the repo owners don’t want to fight it in court.

I completely agree that GitHub is an ethically poor place to host anything, especially any de/recomp or emulation projects. Hopefully a software forge with backbone will step up as the premier place to host de/recomp/emu projects, but until then, we are stuck thanks to mostly Nintendo.

It is owned by Microsoft after all

Do you have an example?