On Thu, Apr 2, 2020 at 1:12 PM Robbie Harwood <rharwood(a)redhat.com> wrote:
Paul Frields <stickster(a)gmail.com> writes:
> Neal Gompa <ngompa13(a)gmail.com> wrote:
[...snip...]
>> It's also important to note that at the core of
GitLab's incentive
>> model is that they want to remove incentives to use FOSS solutions in
>> favor of their unified proprietary solution. They are constantly
>> integrating features and capabilities into the proprietary parts to
>> make it "juicier" for enterprises who don't really have a
compunction
>> about whether they are using Free Software solutions or not, or even
>> may not be willing to support them if it was Free Software because of
>> outmoded thinking.
>>
>> The consequence of this is that it starves interest and development in
>> FOSS solutions, and contributes to making the FOSS ecosystem weaker
>> over time.
>
> That statement rings hollow for me, when Github is arguably the single
> biggest vendor of open source in the world, no part of itself is open
> source,
I assume you didn't mean quite that. Sure, it's not totally open
source, but it's built on and uses open source tools, just like many
other applications. In a personal example, I've fixed something on
github by patching
https://github.com/jch/html-pipeline/ . Or more
bulk, there are 340 repos at
https://github.com/github .
You're absolutely right, my apologies. I should have said it doesn't
have a FOSS offering or the like. However, thank you for helping make
my point, which is that there are many shades in which open source
contribution comes.
--
Paul