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The symmetrical position: ‘I think as the distributor of open source developers’ work, I can’t demand much from them’ The question is about maintaining a sust
by robotresearcher 4y ago
The symmetrical position:
‘I think as the distributor of open source developers’ work, I can’t demand much from them’
The question is about maintaining a sustainable balance in the in-kind value each side perceives.
- Tainnor 4y agoPyPI is not demanding that OS devs publish their code on their platform.
- politician 4y agoWell, to be fair, they did unilaterally assign their notion of criticality to this package and based on that unilaterally imposed conditions that the maintainer did not agree to up front and cannot negotiate. One option would be for the maintainer to never release an update for their package on PyPI going forward.
- petesergeant 4y ago> unilaterally imposed conditions … conditions that only need to be met should they wish to continue publishing on PyPi, right?
- robotresearcher 4y agoI don't see either side demanding anything. Each is providing conditionally free contributions. The article is one side explaining what they see as a downside to the other's conditions.
- staticassertion 4y agoThat's not the symmetrical position. PyPI demands nothing of anyone. It provides a free service with terms of use.
- robotresearcher 4y agoSymmetrically, the author demands nothing of anyone. They provide free code with terms of use.
- pjmlp 4y agoWhich they can host elsewhere.
- morelisp 4y agoThe author also doesn't demand anything of anyone. Users, on the other hand, demand Python software they want to use be available via PyPI. Since both PyPI and software authors are usually trying to act in some users' interest, there should be space for actual discussion and not this zoomer libertarian "nobody owes anyone anything" nonsense.