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[[!meta title="Why is Obnam not hosted on Github or other such service?"]]
Github is a very nice service in many ways, but it is a proprietary
service, running (at least partly) on non-free software. Obnam is free
software, primarily developed by a free software developer, and
hosting it on a proprietary service would be unethical.
Services such as Github often provide many things on top of mere code
hosting, such as ticketing systems. The services might be very easy to
use. It is true that Obnam, which is self-hosted by its main
developer, could benefit from some of those things. None of this takes
away the ethical dilemma of using proprietary software.
For the difference between open source and free software, see for
example
[Software freedom: an introduction](http://yakking.branchable.com/archives/2013/08/).
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