[lucaspiller]

> In case something happens to GitHub. More generally because keeping your data in the cloud and relying on the cloud to back it up is foolish

Instead of the cloud, I read that as "the hands of a company that may get sold, shutdown, agendas may change, etc". I don't think that will happen with GitHub anytime soon, but 10 years ago I would have said the same about Sourceforge :-)

[fapjacks]

That is usually how it goes, isn't it? People kill the golden goose because they start to think their platform is invincible and the laws of physics don't apply to them anymore. Then they become vulnerable to all kinds of problems.