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Whether it is open source or not, GitHub is an American corporation (owned by Microsoft) and what it does is commercial activity. This isn't a free speech issu
by CalChris 7y ago
Whether it is open source or not, GitHub is an American corporation (owned by Microsoft) and what it does is commercial activity.
This isn't a free speech issue. It's not even a corporate free speech issue. This is commercial activity.
Whether this is good policy or not, is another matter but it isn't a free speech matter.
- leereeves 7y agoHow did the free software movement allow a private commercial business to obtain so much power over it?
- codetwelve 7y agoPrivate commercial businesses do this, they fool you with their marketing and make you think that their product is also free and open source. Github's branding and marketing are to thank. And the blame also goes to us and other developers for not seeing this.
- acqq 7y agoYes, the similar stories happen again and again. As a good reflection, there was that comics with the "world tiniest open source violin" https://xkcd.com/743/ https://xkcd.com/743/
- CalChris 7y agoFreely. Or cheaply. Or maybe just conveniently. Linus is worth an estimated $150M and he has a lot of power over it. It’s a conundrum.
- mempko 7y agoYou can thank O'Reilly and friends who undermined it by creating the Open Source movement.
- decasteve 7y agoThe Olympics and other athletic organizations support commercial activity, with many athletes coming to compete from sanctioned countries, where corporations benefit from the activity. Seeing free/open source software in the same light ideologically is not that much of a leap. There is precedent.