On Wed, Jan 22, 2020 at 10:46 AM Michael Catanzaro <mcatanzaro@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > On Wed, Jan 22, 2020 at 5:00 am, Neal Gompa <ngompa13@xxxxxxxxx> 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. -- 真実はいつも一つ！/ Always, there's only one truth! _______________________________________________ devel mailing list -- devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to devel-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
