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An open letter to GitHub from the maintainers of open source projects

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Re: An open letter to GitHub from the maintainers of open source projects

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Post by firethief »

decebalus1 wrote: post #3

Honestly, 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.

The free market deal some people apparently still preach about relies on the people being informed, and on the people giving a shit; what you're seeing is part of the former, and evidence of the latter.

Re: An open letter to GitHub from the maintainers of open source projects

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Post by staticassertion »

decebalus1 wrote: post #3

Honestly, 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.

Isn't this basically just a threat to do exactly what you're saying?

Re: An open letter to GitHub from the maintainers of open source projects

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Post by kgwxd »

jedberg wrote: post #8

As 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.

Shouldn't they have instructions on how send a pull request without a GitHub account? I'm already boycotting for an unrelated reason.

Re: An open letter to GitHub from the maintainers of open source projects

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Post by watwut »

013a wrote: post #4

These 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…

> Go to your senators. Go out and vote. Go protest.

This is the protest. This is one form of how protest looks like.

Re: An open letter to GitHub from the maintainers of open source projects

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Post by staticassertion »

sarcasmatwork wrote: post #12

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https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/attorney-general-announces-ze...

To act like nothing has changed under Trump is ignorant. To pretend that it would matter is disingenuous.

No administration is called out in this repository. Saying "Well, it's too late, because you didn't complain about it under the last administration" is meaningless.

Re: An open letter to GitHub from the maintainers of open source projects

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Post by cronix »

Sounds like a great time to start your own woke git service. So you have maybe 10-15 open source packages in your product, at a minimum. I guess we're at such an intolerant point now that all 10-15 of those companies political policies and viewpoints must align with your own - to use their software/service.

I guess we've politicized code now. Has anyone looked at the political system of discourse lately? Keep that shit out of code, or we're doomed as a profession.

Re: An open letter to GitHub from the maintainers of open source projects

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Post by staticassertion »

013a wrote: post #4

These 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…

No one is subverting the legal system lol what the fuck "go protest" what do you think you're reading?

Re: An open letter to GitHub from the maintainers of open source projects

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Post by switzer »

013a wrote: post #4

These 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…

Increasingly people (esp. Millennials) consider ethics and values toward the top when deciding whether to purchase or use a product.

Why wouldn't they get together and shame a company when that company acts against their own moral values? Is the best possible solution to wait until the first Tuesday in November and hope for the best? I am sure many will also vote, call their elected officials, go to a protest. They'll also sign online petitions.

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