On 4/2/20 3:15 AM, clime wrote:
> On Wed, 1 Apr 2020 at 23:22, Paul Frields <stickster@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> On Wed, Apr 1, 2020 at 7:03 AM Neal Gompa <ngompa13@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> On Wed, Apr 1, 2020 at 6:52 AM Nicolas Mailhot via devel
>>> <devel@lists.fedoraproject.org> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Le mercredi 01 avril 2020 à 11:30 +0100, Leigh Griffin a écrit :
>>>>>
>>>>> To distill it down:
>>>>>
>>>>> - Gitlab has more features that are needed right now for our
>>>>> stakeholder group
>>>>> - Gitlab has an entire company dedicated to roadmap features, we do
>>>>> not.
>>>>
>>>> Unfortunately, Gitlab’s roadmap is also conflicting with Fedora
>>>> objectives. The bread and butter of Gitlab is intermediating between
>>>> devs and end users, culling free software intermediaries like
>>>> distributions, and positionning itself in their stead. That is unlikely
>>>> to result in any commitment to making distribution workflows work.
>>>>
>>>> That would not be a problem if the disintermediation worked, but like
>>>> many actors Gitlab sees the $$$ and power in being the
>>>> desintermediator, and does not care if the result is deffective, as
>>>> long as $$$ and power flows its way.
>>>>
>>>
>>> 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, and thanks to its pervasiveness, open source has won the war
>> of how development should work.
>
> This is imho a contradictory statement. Github, being closed source
> and pervasive, is a proof that open-source has won?

Yes, this really is a bizarre statement.

It also assumes people are perfectly okay with this, whereas many of us
are disgusted to the bone by this situation.

        - Panu -
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