On 11/30/2014 10:05 AM, Guido van Rossum wrote: > Python has a long history (all the way back to my choice of a MIT-style > license for the first release) of mixing "free" > and "non-free" uses and tools -- for example on Windows we consciously chose > to align ourselves with the platform > tooling rather than with the (minority) free tools available, Python has been > ported to many commercial platforms, and > I've always encouraged use of Python in closed-source situations.
For this I am grateful, and agree with.
> Finally. And this may actually be the most important point. Python people
> should be doing stuff that makes Python better
> (both taken in the most inclusive way possible). For stuff that's not unique
> to Python but can be used by many other
> open-source projects, such as compilers, DVCS tools, or mailing lists, we
> should not be wasting our precious time on
> building and maintaining our own tools or administering the servers on which
> they run. And historically we've not done a
> great job on maintenance and administration.
My issues with GitHub range from selfish to philosophical:
- (selfish) I don't want to learn git
- (practical) from what I hear git can have issues with losing history -- in a
project that has many volunteer and part-time developers, using a tool that
can munge your data just doesn't seem very wise
- (practical) supporting git and hg means learning two different workflows
- (philosophical) in a commercial world we vote with our dollars (don't like
how
a company behaves? don't buy their product); in an OSS world we vote by
whose
services/software we use; I don't want to support, or appear to support, a
company that is abusive and sexist towards its employees: it is not what
the
PSF supports, and it's definitely not what I support.
Not everyone is suited to demonstrate in the streets, but it shouldn't be that
hard to not use a company with
acknowledged bad practices.
--
~Ethan~
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