On Fri, Mar 13, 2015 at 7:59 PM, Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.pyt...@pearwood.info> wrote: > If you had said, "Sometimes it's worth using a non-federated service, and > risking vendor lock-in, because the extra features they provide are just > that good" then I'd accept that. That makes sense. I don't like it, but > that's the business model of proprietary services: provide more features, > and use that to lock people in. > > But saying "I host my projects on GitHub because I DON'T use any of the > features which differentiate GitHub from its federated competitors" makes > no sense to me. You are actively helping to support a software monoculture, > and you're not even getting any short-term benefit from it! That's the > worst of all possible worlds -- selling out the future, for no gain today.
Not quite. It's a matter of priorities. I will make use of their proprietary features, but they aren't important to me, and if ever I need to move away from GitHub, I'll just shrug and abandon all of that ancillary stuff. In the meantime, I get zero-dollar hosting of my repos, including zip download and such (I'm not sure how many other hosts have that, but it's a minor convenience rather than anything crucial), and it's a convenient place to point people. You're welcome to shun them. There is definitely benefit to encouraging a multiplicity of hosting services. But I'm not bothered by the GitHub non-free-ness, because I take a less philosophical and more pragmatic view of things. ChrisA -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
