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haburka 20 hours ago [-]
Whenever I read FSF complaints I always feel like an idealistic out of touch person is writing them. There are many walled gardens that try to keep you in but GitHub is really not bad compared to most of them. It’s quite easy to move to another git provider. It’s generally free and has no ads. It offers free compute to projects in their workflows. It supports discussions in a much more readable format than email.
Yes there is telemetry and perhaps they could make you run really malicious code. If they did so, their market value would tank and no one would use it anymore, so they won’t.
If you want to block telemetry in the browser you can trivially. I don’t know why fsf makes a big deal of needing to install an extension for that. It feels like they’re entitled idealists who have been completely left out of modern software.
prologic 2 days ago [-]
> GitHub seems to operate as much like a walled garden as it can without outright breaking compatibility with Git.
Because it's now owned by Microsoft? Looking forward to the EEE play :D
andsoitis 2 days ago [-]
> While Git is free software, GitHub is not software at all.
Oh come on.
signa11 1 days ago [-]
quoting the whole thing
While Git is free software, GitHub is not software at all. It is
a website that provides a range of features, from a simple
repository-hosting service to a variety of SaaSS dis-services.
zaik 2 days ago [-]
The meaning is clear when you read the next sentence: not software [you can run on your computer].
Yes there is telemetry and perhaps they could make you run really malicious code. If they did so, their market value would tank and no one would use it anymore, so they won’t.
If you want to block telemetry in the browser you can trivially. I don’t know why fsf makes a big deal of needing to install an extension for that. It feels like they’re entitled idealists who have been completely left out of modern software.
Because it's now owned by Microsoft? Looking forward to the EEE play :D
Oh come on.