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As the GitLab CEO I want to congratulate Nat and GitHub in obtaining this license. This is great news for the people of Iran, GitHub, open source, and the softw

by sytse 6y ago

As the GitLab CEO I want to congratulate Nat and GitHub in obtaining this license. This is great news for the people of Iran, GitHub, open source, and the software industry. Thank you. I imagine obtaining this license took a consistent effort from the company. GitHub and in particular Nat truly care about open source.

chokeartist 6y ago
Nice! You did your customers a solid in resolving this political football that was thrust upon you/them. Thanks for Gitlab and all of your contributions!
ircoder 6y ago
Sid, when can we expect the same thing happen at GitLab? PS: I'm trailing the comments and it is very interesting to see how this post is turned into a competition about GitLab vs. GitHub vs. BitBucket. But fellas, this is not about tech, it's about the people who use it. In particular about a thriving community of talented and young developers who have been ignored, sanctioned, and betrayed over and over both domestically and internationally.
- sytse 6y ago
  GitLab is looking into whether we may be able to obtain a similar license. PS: I agree this post should be about GitHub and what they achieved for the thriving community of developers in Iran who are making things work despite their circumstances.
hojjat12000 6y ago
As an Iranian interested in opensource and free software, I thank you for Gitlab. It is devastating that this was a thing to begin with. But I'm happy that at least we can pull/push again! Happy coding. Edit: I misread the OP. But the message is still the same, thank you for Gitlab.
- ksec 6y ago
  >I thank you for this Just in case you misread. He is the CEO of GitLab.
  - hojjat12000 6y ago
    I did misread it. To be honest, I thank him a lot more! Gitlab rules!
eggsome 6y ago
Speaking of Nat (and semi-related to this post), I noticed that when he did the reddit AMA just before Microsoft took control the only highly rated question that went unanswered related to censorship in China. https://i.reddit.com/r/AMA/comments/8pc8mf/im_nat_friedman_future_ceo_of_github_ama/e0a2aob/.compact https://i.reddit.com/r/AMA/comments/8pc8mf/im_nat_friedman_f... Now that you guys have had some time to formulate policy do you have any comment?
- cl0ckt0wer 6y ago
  After what happened to Ma who would criticize the CCP? He has everything to lose.
  - dmix 6y ago
    Or Daryl Morey in the NBA. As a fan I've noticed it's really quiet there about China across the league.
  - woutr_be 6y ago
    Nobody knows what happened to Jack Ma, it was all speculation based on a single source. The latest news says he is just laying low, but that of course doesn’t make for a good story. https://www.cnbc.com/2021/01/05/alibaba-founder-jack-ma-is-laying-low-for-the-time-being-not-missing.html https://www.cnbc.com/2021/01/05/alibaba-founder-jack-ma-is-l...
- natfriedman 6y ago
  We have a really excellent policy regarding government takedowns: https://docs.github.com/en/free-pro-team@latest/github/site-policy/github-government-takedown-policy https://docs.github.com/en/free-pro-team@latest/github/site-... Among other things, the policy requires that governments that want content removed from GitHub issue a lawful request to us, which we then push to a public repo: https://github.com/github/gov-takedowns https://github.com/github/gov-takedowns So you are able to see all of the government takedown requests that we have processed, there. You'll notice that there are only 3 directories in that repo: Russia, China, and Spain. When we do (reluctantly) take down content at the request of a government, we try to limit the takedown only to viewers in the country that made the request, rather than doing a global takedown.

by sytse 6y ago

chokeartist 6y ago

Nice! You did your customers a solid in resolving this political football that was thrust upon you/them. Thanks for Gitlab and all of your contributions!

ircoder 6y ago

Sid, when can we expect the same thing happen at GitLab? PS: I'm trailing the comments and it is very interesting to see how this post is turned into a competition about GitLab vs. GitHub vs. BitBucket. But fellas, this is not about tech, it's about the people who use it. In particular about a thriving community of talented and young developers who have been ignored, sanctioned, and betrayed over and over both domestically and internationally.

sytse 6y ago
GitLab is looking into whether we may be able to obtain a similar license. PS: I agree this post should be about GitHub and what they achieved for the thriving community of developers in Iran who are making things work despite their circumstances.

hojjat12000 6y ago

As an Iranian interested in opensource and free software, I thank you for Gitlab. It is devastating that this was a thing to begin with. But I'm happy that at least we can pull/push again! Happy coding. Edit: I misread the OP. But the message is still the same, thank you for Gitlab.

ksec 6y ago
>I thank you for this Just in case you misread. He is the CEO of GitLab.
- hojjat12000 6y ago
  I did misread it. To be honest, I thank him a lot more! Gitlab rules!

eggsome 6y ago

Speaking of Nat (and semi-related to this post), I noticed that when he did the reddit AMA just before Microsoft took control the only highly rated question that went unanswered related to censorship in China. https://i.reddit.com/r/AMA/comments/8pc8mf/im_nat_friedman_future_ceo_of_github_ama/e0a2aob/.compact https://i.reddit.com/r/AMA/comments/8pc8mf/im_nat_friedman_f... Now that you guys have had some time to formulate policy do you have any comment?

cl0ckt0wer 6y ago
After what happened to Ma who would criticize the CCP? He has everything to lose.
- dmix 6y ago
  Or Daryl Morey in the NBA. As a fan I've noticed it's really quiet there about China across the league.
- woutr_be 6y ago
  Nobody knows what happened to Jack Ma, it was all speculation based on a single source. The latest news says he is just laying low, but that of course doesn’t make for a good story. https://www.cnbc.com/2021/01/05/alibaba-founder-jack-ma-is-laying-low-for-the-time-being-not-missing.html https://www.cnbc.com/2021/01/05/alibaba-founder-jack-ma-is-l...
natfriedman 6y ago
We have a really excellent policy regarding government takedowns: https://docs.github.com/en/free-pro-team@latest/github/site-policy/github-government-takedown-policy https://docs.github.com/en/free-pro-team@latest/github/site-... Among other things, the policy requires that governments that want content removed from GitHub issue a lawful request to us, which we then push to a public repo: https://github.com/github/gov-takedowns https://github.com/github/gov-takedowns So you are able to see all of the government takedown requests that we have processed, there. You'll notice that there are only 3 directories in that repo: Russia, China, and Spain. When we do (reluctantly) take down content at the request of a government, we try to limit the takedown only to viewers in the country that made the request, rather than doing a global takedown.