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Whether you're affiliated with Gitlab or not, it's kind of shitty to use someone's platform to push a competitor. Nothing in the terms of service forbids it of
by xmlblog 8y ago
Whether you're affiliated with Gitlab or not, it's kind of shitty to use someone's platform to push a competitor. Nothing in the terms of service forbids it of course and you're absolutely free to do so, but it just feels more ethical and grown up to extoll Gitlab's virtues by using Gitlab to host the content and link to it from HN. Putting it on Github is at least a tacit implication of its superiority along some axis, which—to my eye anyway—undermines your message.
- dokem 8y agoIs it wrong to use google to get to duckduckgo? I would describe this situation as ironic but fail to see how ethics come into question. We have no such obligation to the products we use.
- tmpz22 8y agoCan you draft an essay about Linux in Microsoft Word? Can you install Firefox using Microsoft Edge?
- PleaseHelpMe 8y ago> it's kind of shitty to use someone's platform to push a competitor I am sorry you felt that way. But to be honest, I don't feel that this is bad. I myself don't tell people to abandon Github and move to Gitlab. I just write a small guide to instruct people and whom I targeted happens to use Github a lot, so I put it there. Just that. And if you look carefully, I am a heavy Github user and I didn't stop or fully migrated from Github to Gitlab. I did not criticize anything about Github in the guide, also.