[rescue] Has freshmeat.net disappeared forever? WAS:::Re: What to do with the SS20

[Andrew Jones]

On 06/24/2014 05:44 PM, Mouse wrote:
> Then why are people talking about getting software from github rather
> than from developers' own repos?  It seems to me that from the software
> user's perspective there is indeed a master copy.

Because most developers would rather not have their personal desktops 
serving content to the world.  There's nothing special about the copy on 
github except that it happens to be publicly accessible.