On Thu, Apr 2, 2020 at 1:12 PM Robbie Harwood <rharwood@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Paul Frields <stickster@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > > Neal Gompa <ngompa13@xxxxxxxxx> 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 _______________________________________________ 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
