The Netherlands is developing a self-hosted, FOSS-only GitHub replacement to reduce reliance on Microsoft.

Go Away Microsoft! The Netherlands is Quietly Building Its Own GitHub Replacement https://www.byteseu.com/1994884/ #Netherlands

Go Away Microsoft! The Netherlands is Quietly Building Its Own GitHub Replacement The self-hosted, FOSS-only platform is still in the pilot phase, but government agencies are already signing up. https://itsfoss.com/news/netherlands-forgejo-migration/

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"Go Away Microsoft! The Netherlands is Quietly Building Its Own GitHub Replacement The self-hosted, FOSS-only platform is still in the pilot phase, but government agencies are already signing up. Back in November 2025, Jan Vlug, a software engineer who writes for the Dutch government's developer portal, put out a detailed blog recommending which Git forge the Netherlands should adopt for its governmental source code hosting needs. His post came at a time when the Ministry of the Interior (BZK) was already setting up a dedicated Git instance, and the platform decision was still open. ., Forgejo came out on top due to its fully free and open source nature. Licensed under GPLv3+ and governed by Codeberg e.V., a democratic nonprofit, it has no enterprise tier, proprietary upsell, or vendor lock-in problems. On April 24, 2026, code.overheid.nl had its soft launch, with developer advocate Tom Ootes writing about it on developer.overheid.nl. He framed it as a collective project to build something together rather than ship something finished. The platform is a self-hosted Forgejo instance, running on Dutch government infrastructure managed by SSC-ICT (DAWO). It's free for all government organizations and is built around the following goals." https://itsfoss.com/news/netherlands-forgejo-migration/ #opensource #netherlands

Go Away Microsoft! The Netherlands is Quietly Building Its Own GitHub Replacement (Forgejo) https://itsfoss.com/news/netherlands-forgejo-migration/

Go Away Microsoft! The Netherlands is Quietly Building Its Own GitHub Replacement The self-hosted, FOSS-only platform is still in the pilot phase, but government agencies are already signing up. https://itsfoss.com/news/netherlands-forgejo-migration/?fbclid=IwY2xjawRtVodleHRuA2FlbQIxMQBzcnRjBmFwcF9pZBAyMjIwMzkxNzg4MjAwODkyAAEe5rsWX4xg_wBek689OTni_E2oqSK0j1amJQ-J4arMTE2zTMgKOhk9jv855Gw_aem_gfIc-vihgRWSYRyN271Odg