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Funny you mentioned it, till very recently they needed validation by android or i-phone app, assuming all linux/FOSS programmers had one.
Beyond that anonymity becomes impossible for phone registrations.
Gitlab is NOT free software, and neither is GitTea, but Forgejo IS
codeberg and git.disroot use Forgejo not gitea
https://codeberg.org/api/swagger
@vivi
Ohhh.. github is just git.microsoft
Gitlab EE is not a free software but gitlab CE is. Gitea is a free software too. However if you want to stay free, you have to self-host your instances. Even if it is forgejo.
A for profit corporation will never produce anything truly free, it is all done in the name of profit
IBM's systemd Qt Oracle Google Facebook are all multinational corporations.
Nothing BUT free, they are all dictatorships for the people they employ.
@bizdelnick
I prefer to follow strict definitions when possible. OSI open source definition and FSF definition of free software in this case.
Also I'm not ready to throw away all software that companies you mentioned conributed to. Did you do this?
If you want to avoid software from Google and Meta, you'll need to avoid pretty important parts of the Linux kernel as well as pretty much anything that does hashing or compression (given Google's involvement with WebP and Brotli, and Meta's involvement with btrfs, zstd, xxhash64, cgroup2, etc)
Not only kernel, but also many widely used libraries. Including compiler runtimes.
Qt wasn't. It was bought mnc. And now the only reason Qt hasn't enshittify itself is deal with KDE that can relicense Qt under any license when Qt enshittifies itself.
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