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You realize that Github pretty much did exactly that with the repo, right? It was a silly, somewhat mean-spirited project, but it lived in its own dumb little

• slg 12y ago
  Github is Github's corner of the internet. This repo was a fire that was stomped out by Github.
  • parennoob 12y ago
    Given that Github is now big enough that Google is hosting their code there, I think that view needs to be a bit more nuanced. Yours is a very slick reply that could easily be a boilerplate one for, say, privacy concerns with Google -- "Hey, it's their service, they can do whatever they want". That's fine, but if they subsequently publish a Transparency Report that isn't very transparent about some things, it's probably a good thing to call them out on it. Would you agree?
• maxerickson 12y ago
  They did not set fire to anything. They repudiated their relationship with something. Compare them to a bookstore. Say the bookstore sends some books back to the publisher (without saying why, but maybe the owner didn't like the paper or something). The bookstore might not be a very good bookstore, but it hasn't burned any books. Anybody hosting the only copy of anything on Github is making a mistake, so it isn't fair to use an analogy implying that they destroyed something.