Yes, a business focused on the things that make it money. Thats the purpose and the OP is not wrong on that. What he is missing is the immense power the open source community as whole has. They can boycott github and turn it into a ghost town in a manner of months. Github will then lose part of the appeal it sells to enterprise customers.

> They can boycott github and turn it into a ghost town in a manner of months.

The last paragraph in the OP rhetorically mocks that idea. Boycotting GitHub would negatively impact said projects since there is no competitior as robust, which is a worse outcome.

Indeed. Though it would not take that much convincing to have those people turn gitlab into what they want and host it themselves with a container based image. Plus they could simulate the social aspect of github by using a general index of projects.

1. Move code and related (issues etc.) to GitLab/Bitbucket

2. Mark GitHub repo as "Mirror Only"

3. Unsubscribe from all GitHub Issues and notifications (see 2.)

4. No more low-effort spam, only the occassional medium-high effort questions and issue reports. Sweet relief!

If the choice was between piece of mind and stars on GitHub, I think I'd take the first.

Stars can also be ported over. You could even go one step further and create star similar to reddit's "gold". A "gold" star would contribute to the development of the project.

Then it's truly a win-win! ;)

If only this were a forum where the right people could read about it. ;)