Re: Working for free [was: Offensive variable names]
On Tue, 13 Jul 2021 11:54:43 +0300
Reco <recoverym4n@enotuniq.net> wrote:
> Hi.
>
> On Tue, Jul 13, 2021 at 09:20:12AM +0200, tomas@tuxteam.de wrote:
> > > > Working for free.
> > >
> > > Yes. This aspect was always annoying to Microsoft and alike.
> >
> > Times have changed. Now Microsoft *loves* free work... done for
> > them [1].
>
> Nothing had changed in this regard. Every software corporation always
> adored enthusiasts doing their job for them. No exceptions.
>
>
> > Not that this enhances my love for Microsoft, mind you. It rather
> > confirms my initial gut feeling to stay out of Githubs way wherever
> > I can.
>
> Github (Gitlab, Sourceforge, etc) were and are non-free (as in -
> non-gratis) services, so it's only reasonable to stay away from them
> regardless of whom is controlling them.
What do you mean by calling them non-gratis services? I know that some
of their services are non-gratis, but basic code hosting certainly is
gratis.
> You need to be in control of your code - *you* host it. Always was,
> always is. It's not that hard anyway.
If you maintain a local copy of your code and just push it to Github
for serving it publicly (which is what I do, and what I assume most
developers do), you haven't lost control of your code - if / when the
host does anything you don't like, you take the existing code and make
it available elsewhere, and stop posting future code to the offending
service. (It'll still have a copy of any existing code, of course - but
that's inevitable with FLOSS software regardless of where you host it.)
Celejar
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