I&#x27;ve seen this argument before. The problem is that it doesn&#x27;t consider the nature of git—every clone is a backup copy of the entire repository. Even if github lost every single repo tomorrow, only a small percentage of projects would actually be lost forever.<p>This is also the reason that GitHub is fundamentally different from source forge. If GitHub were to turn evil tomorrow, everyone could just upload their project to gitlab or bitbucket and carry on.