On Wed, Jan 22, 2020 at 10:46 AM Michael Catanzaro <mcatanzaro(a)gnome.org> wrote:
On Wed, Jan 22, 2020 at 5:00 am, Neal Gompa <ngompa13(a)gmail.com> wrote:
> And there's this worry that GitLab will go the same path Transifex
> did. They have a ton of incentives to do so, and they already are
> starting to with the consideration of injecting nonfree JavaScript in
> all variants.
Terrifying. Do you have a reference for this?
Back in October, GitLab considered doing this[1]. The outcry from
their corporate customers got them to reconsider... for now. They're
still trying to figure out what to do here to implement that feature
without as much pushback.
[1]:
https://about.gitlab.com/blog/2019/10/10/update-free-software-and-telemetry/
I guess GitLab does not understand it would be throwing away all the
efforts of GNOME,
freedesktop.org, KDE, and Debian to migrate to it? I
doubt any of these communities would be willing to continue using
GitLab if this were to happen (even though another transition would be
very painful for each community). We might even wind up in a bizarro
world where Pagure becomes the new default forge for open source
communities.
I don't know how many times we're going to have to learn the hard
lesson that relying on open core software bites us in the end.
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真実はいつも一つ!/ Always, there's only one truth!