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Brett Sheffield (he/him)
Brett Sheffield (he/him)
@dentangle@chaos.social  ·  activity timestamp 2 weeks ago

I've been asked a few times in the past week to use #GitHub, and I'd like to be helpful, but I keep seeing Renée Good's face and it would seem disrespectful somehow.

Happy to email a patch, but I'm done with that site.

#GiveUpGitHub

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mray
mray
@mray@social.tchncs.de replied  ·  activity timestamp 2 weeks ago

@dentangle I feel like Microsoft still isn't mentioned often enough in the Github context.

Microsoft.

Microsoft is Github. No idea how people can rationalize that away. 🤦

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Brett Sheffield (he/him)
Brett Sheffield (he/him)
@dentangle@chaos.social replied  ·  activity timestamp 2 weeks ago

@mray It seems odd to need to use Microsoft to contribute to Free Software.

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FediThing :progress_pride:
FediThing :progress_pride:
@FediThing@social.chinwag.org replied  ·  activity timestamp 2 weeks ago

@dentangle @mray

Maybe we need to call it Microsoft Github routinely? There's nothing on the Github website even mentioning Microsoft so am guessing they don't like people making the connection?

When I started calling the book site Amazon Goodreads, judging by replies a lot of people didn't realise who owned it.

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T_X
T_X
@T_X@chaos.social replied  ·  activity timestamp 2 weeks ago

@dentangle that now makes me wonder why this ticket was closed without any comment: https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab/-/issues/423228
If it were possible to do cross-instance forks and PRs then I'd be all-in for #Gitlab.

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David Culley
David Culley
@davidculley@hachyderm.io replied  ·  activity timestamp 2 weeks ago

@T_X @dentangle FYI: GitLab happily collaborates with ICE.

Here's what GitLab's CEO, Sid Sijbrandij, himself committed:
https://gitlab.com/gitlab-com/www-gitlab-com/-/commit/b5a35716deb4f63299a23a40510475f5503c11c4

> vetting customers is time consuming and potentially distracting.

GitLab employees are forbidden to discuss politics at work or raise concerns about GitLab's customers.

Even when it's perfectly clear that a customer is evil, they want to "do business with customers with values that are incompatible with our own values".

They "welcome everyone […] to be customers of GitLab" as they "do not currently exclude anyone from being a customer based on moral/value grounds."

Here's a news article:

https://www.theregister.co.uk/2019/10/16/gitlab_employees_gagged/

Blood money is fine with us, says GitLab: Vetting non-evil customers is 'time consuming, potentially distracting'

Code-hosting biz also bans staff from talking politics at work
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