You're probably talking about GitHub which is centralized and owned by Microsoft.
How did Satoshi commit code during the first years? When did they start using GitHub?
Although I suppose taking down Bitcoin from GitHub could be considered a violation of free speech... perhaps...
I remember something similar about cryptography not allowed to be exported from the US back in the late 90s (Gene Hoffman had wrote a story about it). He found a clever workaround:
https://hoffmang9.github.io/free-speech/the-history-code-is-free-speech.htmlGit is a version control software I misused the word. I wanted to say “repository” and i believe sourceforge was the king shit back in the day. I can’t really remember but bitcoin code was hosted on sourceforge at first then it was moved to github. There was another drama about it which I can’t really remember the details.
SourceForge is a web service that offers software consumers a centralized online location to control and manage open-source software projects and research business software.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/SourceForge