> Producing OSS is not the only way to contribute to the OSS ecosystem
Yes, it is. Otherwise, your contribution is not part of the OSS ecosystem.
> github offers free services for OSS developers who otherwise would have to host them themselves
Github offer free services to anyone, OSS or not.
> that's the reason why they got so popular and i think we can all agree on the fact that it's incredibly useful
I think we can all agree it's called a "loss leader". It's not useful whatsoever to those who refuse to further enrich a for-profit company producing proprietary software which considers your own assets to be their proprietary data (see also: Copilot). In fact it makes things more difficult for us because we're locked out of contributing to virtually any OSS project.
Yes, it is. Otherwise, your contribution is not part of the OSS ecosystem.
> github offers free services for OSS developers who otherwise would have to host them themselves
Github offer free services to anyone, OSS or not.
> that's the reason why they got so popular and i think we can all agree on the fact that it's incredibly useful
I think we can all agree it's called a "loss leader". It's not useful whatsoever to those who refuse to further enrich a for-profit company producing proprietary software which considers your own assets to be their proprietary data (see also: Copilot). In fact it makes things more difficult for us because we're locked out of contributing to virtually any OSS project.