<story><title>GitHub shuts off access to Aurelia repository, citing trade sanctions</title><url>https://twitter.com/eisenbergeffect/status/1240671036292485121</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>firloop</author><text>This is pure speculation, but it seems that GitHub&amp;#x27;s ownership by Microsoft causes them to be significantly more strict with the types of content that they are comfortable hosting. Expect this to continue as they expand up and down the stack; once their npm acquisition closes you&amp;#x27;ll see this there too.&lt;p&gt;I think this should be a wake-up call to anyone staking their open source project on GitHub — if I let someone from a US sanctioned country contribute to my repo will I be banned? Hopefully mindshare moves to alternatives in due time.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>stickfigure</author><text>This seems peculiar since Rob Eisenberg (author of that tweet and lead of Aurelia) &lt;i&gt;works for Microsoft&lt;/i&gt;.</text></comment>
<story><title>GitHub shuts off access to Aurelia repository, citing trade sanctions</title><url>https://twitter.com/eisenbergeffect/status/1240671036292485121</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>firloop</author><text>This is pure speculation, but it seems that GitHub&amp;#x27;s ownership by Microsoft causes them to be significantly more strict with the types of content that they are comfortable hosting. Expect this to continue as they expand up and down the stack; once their npm acquisition closes you&amp;#x27;ll see this there too.&lt;p&gt;I think this should be a wake-up call to anyone staking their open source project on GitHub — if I let someone from a US sanctioned country contribute to my repo will I be banned? Hopefully mindshare moves to alternatives in due time.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>chatmasta</author><text>GitLab is fantastic, but GitHub has the most eyeballs and best discoverability features. As long as that remains true, GitHub will remain a better place to launch an open source product than alternatives.</text></comment>