Re: [gentoo-project] Gentoo, GitHub, and the Social Contract

[Seemant Kulleen <seemantk@gmail.com>]

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Note: not replying directly to Ciaran (I fully agree with what you said, C
and Michal)

Question: do any of the scenarios truly threaten Gentoo's existence?

Or is it just that things might be a pain in the butt if Github becomes
unavailable?

Let's say GitHub does change its policies and go full-douchebag -- is it
really the case that Gento would be alone in being screwed, or perhaps the
numerous open source projects on there would result in another something
replacing it?

Would love to see a little less fear around here.



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On 15 February 2015 at 11:08, Ciaran McCreesh <
ciaran.mccreesh@googlemail.com> wrote:

> On Sun, 15 Feb 2015 13:39:16 -0500
> "Anthony G. Basile" <blueness@gentoo.org> wrote:
> > On 02/15/15 12:42, Ciaran McCreesh wrote:
> > > On Sun, 15 Feb 2015 11:17:54 -0500
> > > "Anthony G. Basile" <blueness@gentoo.org> wrote:
> > >> But the big difference here is that github is a company while infra
> > >> is volunteer work.
> > > And the equipment and hosting is paid for by...
> > >
> >
> > You mean the folks like osuosl or other institutions run by
> > grants :P Or is that not the answer you were expecting?
>
> No, that's exactly what I mean. What if OSUOSL or some other
> institution decides they'll pull funding unless the entire Gentoo
> Gnome team is fired? Or what if the government funding them announces
> that they can't use their money to accept contributions from or
> give benefit to countries in the Axis of Evil?
>
> The idea that Gentoo is currently immune to these kinds of pressures,
> but suddenly wouldn't be if Github were to be used for hosting, isn't
> really grounded in reality...
>
> --
> Ciaran McCreesh
>

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