On Tue, 13 Jul 2021 11:54:43 +0300 Reco <recovery...@enotuniq.net> wrote:
> Hi. > > On Tue, Jul 13, 2021 at 09:20:12AM +0200, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > > > > Working for free. > > > > > > Yes. This aspect was always annoying to Microsoft and alike. > > > > Times have changed. Now Microsoft *loves* free work... done for > > them [1]. > > Nothing had changed in this regard. Every software corporation always > adored enthusiasts doing their job for them. No exceptions. > > > > Not that this enhances my love for Microsoft, mind you. It rather > > confirms my initial gut feeling to stay out of Githubs way wherever > > I can. > > Github (Gitlab, Sourceforge, etc) were and are non-free (as in - > non-gratis) services, so it's only reasonable to stay away from them > regardless of whom is controlling them. What do you mean by calling them non-gratis services? I know that some of their services are non-gratis, but basic code hosting certainly is gratis. > You need to be in control of your code - *you* host it. Always was, > always is. It's not that hard anyway. If you maintain a local copy of your code and just push it to Github for serving it publicly (which is what I do, and what I assume most developers do), you haven't lost control of your code - if / when the host does anything you don't like, you take the existing code and make it available elsewhere, and stop posting future code to the offending service. (It'll still have a copy of any existing code, of course - but that's inevitable with FLOSS software regardless of where you host it.) Celejar
