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Nah. Hardly going to change anything for the worse, only for the better. The bar is still trivial. The worst part is that it will be difficult to be anonymous.
by Brian_K_White 3y ago
Nah. Hardly going to change anything for the worse, only for the better.
The bar is still trivial. The worst part is that it will be difficult to be anonymous. There are a lot of valid, even life & death reasons for anonymity, and that will now be much harder.
So the loss is all the contributors who don't dare let their government or employer see them helping the wrong projects, or in some cases don't want to disclose that they are any good at coding or particularly interested in security etc.
- cqqxo4zV46cp 3y ago“GitHub Verified”.
- nonrandomstring 3y ago[dead]
- bradleyjg 3y agoI bet a bunch of employers don’t want any unauthorized contributions to open source. For governments it seems much more niche—-only a few specific projects would raise red flags.
- tw04 3y agoThe average business still isn’t going to have any clue who GitHub user coderdude57 is in real life. But coderdude57 may be forced to hop on a video meeting to prove who he is to a project lead before his code is accepted.