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1. carapa+(OP)[view] [source] 2020-04-14 19:48:52
> Existing customers will have their bills automatically reduced going forward.

That is a class act right there.

Now, if you would open source github...

I kid. I have zero hope that that will ever happen.

It has always been bizarre (IMO) that arguably the most popular open source dev forge, er, hub, is closed and proprietary. But what can you do?

Remember when all those FOSS devs sent an open letter to github whining about that and begging for attention? https://github.com/dear-github/dear-github (Ironically, they "signed" it by filling out a Google docs spreadsheet! As opposed to, say, patching a file.)

Utterly bizarre.

And now they have done it again, apparently because GitHub serves ICE: https://github.com/drop-ice/dear-github-2.0

They "call upon GitHub to: Immediately cancel your contract with ICE ; Commit yourself to a higher ethical standard with all of your business dealings ..." [in writing]. But they stop short of threatening to leave if GitHub doesn't comply with their demands.

Leaving aside the politics of ICE, and the strangeness of talking to "GitHub" like it's a single person, it seems to me that without taking some action (like moving to e.g. Srht or self-hosting a DVCS hub) that this is just posturing.

Anyway, congratulations on sucking more air out of the room of FOSS development. In the words of the aforementioned, undersigned, concerned peasants, excuse me! users, of GitHub:

> We still believe in GitHub as a platform, as a place to help the open source community make the world a genuinely better place. Please, step up and join us.

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