They don't "choose tarballs over github". They choose darcs over git. Both are distributed.
The terrorism line (at https://patoline.org/about.html) isn't taking a shot at git, it's taking a shot at GitHub, which is centralized in spite of git's underlying distributed nature.
And this is far from the first project to choose a free/open distributed system over a proprietary centralized one.
The terrorism line (at https://patoline.org/about.html) isn't taking a shot at git, it's taking a shot at GitHub, which is centralized in spite of git's underlying distributed nature.
And this is far from the first project to choose a free/open distributed system over a proprietary centralized one.