An open letter to GitHub from the maintainers of open source projects
1–10 of 84 posts
Re: An open letter to GitHub from the maintainers of open source projects
#2[deleted]
Re: An open letter to GitHub from the maintainers of open source projects
#3Honestly, who gives a shit? The whole free market deal everyone is preaching about should just fix the problem. Git is decentralized. If you have a political/ethical problem with Github, move your stuff to Gitlab or host it yourself. It's not a big deal. Although I share some of the feelings in that letter, Github is free to do whatever it wants and we are (still) free to take our business wherever we want.
Re: An open letter to GitHub from the maintainers of open source projects
#4These open source projects certainly love the very high quality, free services Github offers them, until they start learning how the sausage is made.
ICE has done, and continues to do some terrible things. Horrible, horrible things; all legal things, but nonetheless horrible. But, frankly, if its legal, I am much less comfortable with Github's users subverting the US legal system by backdooring their moral code into products these legal entities rely on. Go to your senators. Go out and vote. Go protest. It's not that hard, but it is much harder than signing your name on a petition.
Re: An open letter to GitHub from the maintainers of open source projects
#5So many of these folks were forced by their communities of users to move to Github from their old, bespoke infrastructures. I can understand the bitterness.
Re: An open letter to GitHub from the maintainers of open source projects
#6Honestly, who gives a shit? The whole free market deal everyone is preaching about should just fix the problem. Git is decentralized. If you have a political/ethical problem with Github, move your stuff to Gitlab or host it yourself. It's not a big deal. Although I share some of the feelings in that letter, Github is free to do whatever it wants and we are (still) free to take our business wherever we want.
GitHub is a near monopolist. Several large projects like Python have been moved to GitHub under eager participation of Microsoft employees.
Open source is no longer free, so we do not have a choice.
Re: An open letter to GitHub from the maintainers of open source projects
#7These open source projects certainly love the very high quality, free services Github offers them, until they start learning how the sausage is made. ICE has done, and continues to do some terrible things. Horrible, horrible things; all legal things, but nonetheless horrible. But, frankly, if its legal, I am much less comfortable with Github's users subverting the US legal system by backdooring their moral code into…
Signing a petition is legal too?
Re: An open letter to GitHub from the maintainers of open source projects
#8As a side note to the letter, it's interesting to watch how pull requests are used to add signatures in alphabetical order. That's actually a really interesting exercise to watch.
Re: An open letter to GitHub from the maintainers of open source projects
#9Honestly, who gives a shit? The whole free market deal everyone is preaching about should just fix the problem. Git is decentralized. If you have a political/ethical problem with Github, move your stuff to Gitlab or host it yourself. It's not a big deal. Although I share some of the feelings in that letter, Github is free to do whatever it wants and we are (still) free to take our business wherever we want.
«Honestly, who gives a shit?» -> Good question, I think you'll find list of people who give a shit in the link.
Re: An open letter to GitHub from the maintainers of open source projects
#10These open source projects certainly love the very high quality, free services Github offers them, until they start learning how the sausage is made. ICE has done, and continues to do some terrible things. Horrible, horrible things; all legal things, but nonetheless horrible. But, frankly, if its legal, I am much less comfortable with Github's users subverting the US legal system by backdooring their moral code into…
Surely you can't be equating boycotting a company with "subverting the US legal system". What am I missing here?