[core-workflow] Software Factory

[Brett Cannon]

On Thu, 26 Nov 2015 at 14:12 Stefan Krah <skrah.temporarily at gmail.com>
wrote:

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> [Posting via gmane, followup seems to be broken.]
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> [Nick]
> > From a purely pragmatic perspective though, "Import from GitHub" is
> > already one of the features offered by GitLab, and will no doubt be a
> > standard feature of any other open source repository management
> > systems that gains widespread popularity in the future. Donald also
> > noted a while back that this is a reasonable lesson to take away from
> > the Linux kernel Bitkeeper experiment - they used the proprietary
> > service for as long as the vendor was playing nice, and when the
> > relationship soured, they migrated away again.
>
> I think this is different from BitKeeper:  GitHub has a dossier on every
> participating OSS developer, including contribution statistics, political
> correctness on the tracker, age estimate from pictures and so forth.
>
> Before GitHub, all this information *could* have been gathered on
> any individual, but at a far greater cost in time and effort.
>
> If GitHub turns evil, it will be most likely by selling this
> nicely packaged information to recruiters.  It's too late to move
> away then, the statistics will have been collected already.
>

Do their terms of service even allow for that, or is this just speculation
on your part?

-Brett


>
>
> Quite honestly, I'd feel like working for Andreessen & Horowitz for free
> if we move there.
>


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> Stefan Krah
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