On Thu, Apr 2, 2020 at 1:12 PM Robbie Harwood <rharw...@redhat.com> wrote:
> Paul Frields <sticks...@gmail.com> writes:
> > Neal Gompa <ngomp...@gmail.com> 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
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