On Wed, Apr 01, 2020 at 17:21:14 -0400,
Paul Frields <stickster(a)gmail.com> wrote:
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, and thanks to its pervasiveness, open source has won the war
of how development should work.
I care more about free software than open source. Github, at least in the
past, didn't really encourage free software and a lot of stuff hosted
there didn't have a clear license.
Github is a problem, because it seems to be benefitting from network
effects to pressure people to create accounts there. I was very happy
when Pagure was announced, because it seemed that there would be a
competitor that should at least do well amoung people who cared about
free software. Hopefully that still happens, but this change will
probably kill some of the momentum.
Github certainly does some good things and isn't currently a bad actor,
but I don't think they are really in the free software camp.