Mark Allums writes:
> The onus is not on me to provide reasons. I simply asked for more
> info.
You initially asked for reasons; reasons were given. You haven't
responded to those, from what I can see, and AFAICT they answer the
initial reuest adequately.
As best I can tell, a reasonable person
On Saturday 18 May 2019 04:27:43 am Dominik George wrote:
> No. I, for one, do not care much who owns GitHub.
>
> Most of what's wrong there can be explained by stupidity or lack of
> care rather than being evil.
>
> And most companies seem to make one common mistake when it comes to
> diversity:
On Sat, May 18, 2019 at 02:37:09PM +0100, Brad Rogers wrote:
> On Sat, 18 May 2019 15:19:35 +0200
> wrote:
>
> Hello to...@tuxteam.de,
>
> >I'm not sure I should interpret that as trolling, misunderstanding
> >about what inclusive policies mean or what.
>
> More like reductio ad absurdum. The
On Sat, 18 May 2019 15:19:35 +0200
wrote:
Hello to...@tuxteam.de,
>I'm not sure I should interpret that as trolling, misunderstanding
>about what inclusive policies mean or what.
More like reductio ad absurdum. The point is, legislation cannot do
away with discrimination.
--
Regards _
On Sat, May 18, 2019 at 11:52:50AM +0100, Brad Rogers wrote:
> On Sat, 18 May 2019 10:27:43 +0200
> Dominik George wrote:
>
> Hello Dominik,
>
> >trans people, or the disabled. They don't get that choosing a set of
> >people to include, instead of removing *all* barriers, is
> >discrimination ra
On Sat, 18 May 2019 10:27:43 +0200
Dominik George wrote:
Hello Dominik,
>trans people, or the disabled. They don't get that choosing a set of
>people to include, instead of removing *all* barriers, is
>discrimination rather than inclusion.
The problem is that, in some countries, to combat disc
On Sat, May 18, 2019 at 10:51:40AM +0200, Dominik George wrote:
> >Yes, it does. Despite what others have said, there is a beneficial
> >patent
> >exhaustion effect. If software with patented algorithms is
> >distributed by the
> >patent owner, for example by Microsoft via GitHub, the patent is
Hi there
On 17/05/2019 09:28, Dominik George wrote:
please do*never* use GitHub for free software
Please explain, in detail, why.
If discrimination against parts of the community is not enough for you, here's
why:
https://mako.cc/writing/hill-free_tools.html
An overview;
https://en.wi
>Yes, it does. Despite what others have said, there is a beneficial
>patent
>exhaustion effect. If software with patented algorithms is
>distributed by the
>patent owner, for example by Microsoft via GitHub, the patent is
>exhausted.
>https://fosdem.org/2019/schedule/event/patent_exhaustion/
Ye
On Fri 17/May/2019 17:52:02 +0200 rhkramer wrote:
> On Friday, May 17, 2019 03:28:51 AM Dominik George wrote:
>> >> please do*never* use GitHub for free software
>> >
>> >Please explain, in detail, why.
>>
>> If discrimination against parts of the community is not enough for you,
>> here's why:
Hi,
>Why do these restrictions exist? The reason most social media services
>use an
>age limit of 13 or over is in part because of a law in the USA. The
>COPPA law
>or Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act states that any
>organisations or
>people operating online services (including social me
On 2019-05-18, Richard Hector wrote:
>
> I'm not going to read them again, but IIRC one of them referred to the
> GitHub ToC, which contained a bit about restricting accounts to those
> over 13 years of age, and claiming this was due to US law (but not
> specifying which law).
https://en.wikipedi
No. I, for one, do not care much who owns GitHub.
Most of what's wrong there can be explained by stupidity or lack of care rather
than being evil.
And most companies seem to make one common mistake when it comes to diversity:
They mistake diversity for caring for certain groups of people, often
Hi.
On Sat, May 18, 2019 at 01:53:30AM -0500, Mark Allums wrote:
> On 5/17/19 10:43 PM, Ben Finney wrote:
> > Mark Allums writes:
> >
> > > On 5/17/19 2:28 AM, Dominik George wrote:
> > > > > Please explain, in detail, why.
> > > > https://mako.cc/writing/hill-free_tools.html
> > > > htt
On 5/17/19 10:43 PM, Ben Finney wrote:
Mark Allums writes:
On 5/17/19 2:28 AM, Dominik George wrote:
Please explain, in detail, why.
https://mako.cc/writing/hill-free_tools.html
https://www.adamhyde.net/another-good-reason-not-to-use-github/
https://www.mirbsd.org/permalinks/wlog-10_e2017030
On 18/05/19 5:17 PM, Aidan Gauland wrote:
> On 18/05/19 11:08 AM, Dominik George wrote:
>>> Can you give sources for your claim about their discrimination? That
>>> one is new to me.
>> I did. Please read my mails in this thread.
> I have, and I just re-read the articles you gave, and I still do n
On 18/05/19 11:08 AM, Dominik George wrote:
>> Can you give sources for your claim about their discrimination? That
>> one is new to me.
> I did. Please read my mails in this thread.
I have, and I just re-read the articles you gave, and I still do not see
anything about discrimination by age, or a
Mark Allums writes:
> On 5/17/19 2:28 AM, Dominik George wrote:
> >> Please explain, in detail, why.
> > https://mako.cc/writing/hill-free_tools.html
> > https://www.adamhyde.net/another-good-reason-not-to-use-github/
> > https://www.mirbsd.org/permalinks/wlog-10_e20170301-tg.htm
>
> I'm not conv
On Fri, 17 May 2019 17:57:55 +0200
Dominik George wrote:
> >Does putting software on GitHub give them any kind of claim on the
> >intellectual property of the software?
>
> No.
>
No, not now
But when, matter of time I guess.
Been there, done that.
>Can you give sources for your claim about their discrimination? That
>one is new to me.
I did. Please read my mails in this thread.
-nik
On 17/05/19 7:28 PM, Dominik George wrote:
>>> please do*never* use GitHub for free software
>> Please explain, in detail, why.
> If discrimination against parts of the community is not enough for you,
> here's why:
>
> https://mako.cc/writing/hill-free_tools.html
>
> https://www.adamhyde.net/ano
On Fri, May 17, 2019 at 11:52:02AM -0400, rhkra...@gmail.com wrote:
[...]
> Does putting software on GitHub give them any kind of claim on the
> intellectual property of the software?
Absolutely not. *If* there's a strategy behind that (there might be, to
the tune of $7.5B), it has to be more s
>Does putting software on GitHub give them any kind of claim on the
>intellectual property of the software?
No.
On Friday, May 17, 2019 03:28:51 AM Dominik George wrote:
> >> please do*never* use GitHub for free software
> >
> >Please explain, in detail, why.
>
> If discrimination against parts of the community is not enough for you,
> here's why:
>
> https://mako.cc/writing/hill-free_tools.html
>
> http
* On 2019 17 May 04:53 -0500, john doe wrote:
> I could be missing something here but why not simply 'mirroring' the
> github repo to salsa?
That is possible but, as far as I know, it is a manual process. I do
the same with a project hosted on both SourceForge and GitHub. For any
updates I man
On 5/17/2019 11:47 AM, Paul Sutton wrote:
>
>
> On 17/05/2019 10:23, Jonathan Dowland wrote:
>> On Thu, May 16, 2019 at 04:51:22PM +0100, Paul Sutton wrote:
>>> is it possible to
>>> 1. Fork a project between github -> salsa or between salsa -> github ?
>>
>> No. But, you can create a corresponding
On 17/05/2019 10:23, Jonathan Dowland wrote:
> On Thu, May 16, 2019 at 04:51:22PM +0100, Paul Sutton wrote:
>> is it possible to
>> 1. Fork a project between github -> salsa or between salsa -> github ?
>
> No. But, you can create a corresponding project in one based on the same
> git repositor
On Thu, May 16, 2019 at 04:51:22PM +0100, Paul Sutton wrote:
is it possible to
1. Fork a project between github -> salsa or between salsa -> github ?
No. But, you can create a corresponding project in one based on the same
git repository. I.e., you clone the git repository from one project,
cre
On 17/05/2019 09:39, to...@tuxteam.de wrote:
> On Fri, May 17, 2019 at 09:28:51AM +0200, Dominik George wrote:
please do*never* use GitHub for free software
>
> [links]
>
> Thanks for the links. Up to now, I avoided Github mainly because
> I'm always wary of those "open core", which pay
On Fri, May 17, 2019 at 09:28:51AM +0200, Dominik George wrote:
> >> please do*never* use GitHub for free software
[links]
Thanks for the links. Up to now, I avoided Github mainly because
I'm always wary of those "open core", which pay lip service to
"Open Source" (and make heavy use of free sof
On 5/17/19 2:28 AM, Dominik George wrote:
please do*never* use GitHub for free software
Please explain, in detail, why.
If discrimination against parts of the community is not enough for you, here's
why:
https://mako.cc/writing/hill-free_tools.html
https://www.adamhyde.net/another-good-re
>> please do*never* use GitHub for free software
>
>Please explain, in detail, why.
If discrimination against parts of the community is not enough for you, here's
why:
https://mako.cc/writing/hill-free_tools.html
https://www.adamhyde.net/another-good-reason-not-to-use-github/
https://www.mirb
On 16/05/2019 20:58, Nate Bargmann wrote:
> A bit of searching shows that some international legislation seems to be
> responsible for the age restrictions.
>
> This project cites the GDPR:
>
> https://github.com/hypothesis/product-backlog/issues/561
>
> GitHub's ToS says an account holder mu
On 5/16/19 11:34 AM, Dominik George wrote:
please do*never* use GitHub for free software
Please explain, in detail, why.
Mark
A bit of searching shows that some international legislation seems to be
responsible for the age restrictions.
This project cites the GDPR:
https://github.com/hypothesis/product-backlog/issues/561
GitHub's ToS says an account holder must be at least 13 and gives US law
as the reason in section B
On 16/05/2019 19:22, Cindy Sue Causey wrote:
> On 5/16/19, Paul Sutton wrote:
>> Just a specific question from the thread
>>
>> Further to the comments by nik on the Salsa vs Github thread.
>>
>> Am I right in thinking that you can be _any_ age to contribute t
On 5/16/19, Paul Sutton wrote:
> Just a specific question from the thread
>
> Further to the comments by nik on the Salsa vs Github thread.
>
> Am I right in thinking that you can be _any_ age to contribute to
> projects hosted on Salsa and contribute to the Debian project in ge
On 16/05/2019 18:32, Dominik George wrote:
> Hi,
>
>> Further to the comments by nik on the Salsa vs Github thread.
>>
>> Am I right in thinking that you can be _any_ age to contribute to
>> projects hosted on Salsa and contribute to the Debian project in
>&g
Hi,
>Further to the comments by nik on the Salsa vs Github thread.
>
>Am I right in thinking that you can be _any_ age to contribute to
>projects hosted on Salsa and contribute to the Debian project in
>general?
Yes. This results from the fact that in Debian, noone cares wheth
Hi
Just a specific question from the thread
Further to the comments by nik on the Salsa vs Github thread.
Am I right in thinking that you can be _any_ age to contribute to
projects hosted on Salsa and contribute to the Debian project in general?
Granted there is probably a minimal age for
Hi,
>I am creating levels for the Rocks and Diamonds game (
>https://www.artsoft.org/ ) these are being uploaded to my project
>repository on salsa
>
>https://salsa.debian.org/zleap-guest/rocksndiamondslevels
>
>I am in the process of updating the README.md files so, hopefully
>others
>can also be
Hi
I am creating levels for the Rocks and Diamonds game (
https://www.artsoft.org/ ) these are being uploaded to my project
repository on salsa
https://salsa.debian.org/zleap-guest/rocksndiamondslevels
I am in the process of updating the README.md files so, hopefully others
can also be part of t
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