Decentralized Code Repositories [was: Windows source code leak]

[grarpamp]

>> >> Would would be very amusing is to see Microsoft cry once someone
>> >> creates librendows (Libre Windows) and puts this source code on
>> >> github or something to make open source version of Windows and
>> >> Windows software.
>> >
>> > Github would immediately shut it down once Microsoft sent them a DMCA
>> > takedown notice. *Maybe* it might last a while on BitTorrent, if
>> > anywhere.
>>
>>
>> Github is too centralized anyways. What is the best decentralized git like
>> system?
>
> It's not exactly what you're after, but given that the options for actual
> decentralized backends seem few and far between (there was also GitChain
> https://github.com/gitchain/gitchain

There needs to be something...
decentral, no admins / keyholders / bdfl's / corps, no power, anon...
imagine the blocksize debate being determined therein without
blockstream or anyone else... "longest chain" of code is "the code"...
sidechains for branches, dao's for various things, the possibilities...

> It's fairly trivial to set up a central repo that you push to, and have a
> post-receive hook on it to forward any commits onto Github, Bitbucket and a
> variety of other git-as-a-service providers. Spread across enough providers,
> it makes take-downs harder (and you can easily just add a new provider -
> there are plenty of github wannabe's out there, after all).
>
> You'd need to be fairly careful about making sure that central repo isn't
> taken down, but again, it'd be trivial to replace if it were.
>
> You'd need to make sure discovery wasn't too hard, but that could be as
> simple as providing links to the various providers in the repo's README so
> that anyone with a copy of the README (or the internet archive) know where
> else to look.

:: GitTorrent (https://github.com/cjb/GitTorrent)
:: Mango (https://github.com/axic/mango)

There are some open repos: git usually on onion, monotone usually on i2p.
As well as the usual file distribution, IPFS, [self]hosting services,
etc therein.
All would last much longer than anything involving clearnet... the
various "scenes" would benefit to expand beyond clearnet whack a mole.