One of the benefits of using git is that it doesn't really matter where the upstream is. You are getting the whole thing when you clone, so development is distributed. I'm not really sure what the problem is here. If Red Hat or Canonical gave free hosting, would we be seeing the same complaints?<p>There's still a GNU website, even if subsections redirect somewhere else. I'm so tired of all this purity policing. You want GNU to use something other than github? Build that platform, don't make it commercial (because obviously that's that problem, right?), make sure it has all the same features, and then offer it to GNU to use for free.