Hello,

Am 28.03.19 um 15:28 schrieb Paul Boddie:
On Thursday 28. March 2019 09.47.34 Christian Imhorst wrote:
How do we come to this conclusion? We can probably give thanks to
Microsoft for their good lobby work, that they could get an exception
for GitHub
I must say that I feel uncomfortable about emphasising companies like GitHub
in any advocacy campaign.

Me too. I meant that ironically, because on their blog GitHub claims success for the exception of open source platforms. It sounds plausible, but good that it's not:

Am 28.03.19 um 17:41 schrieb Bernhard E. Reiter:
> Is a sign that the people who were shaping the current EU directive
> understood our arguments that Free Software development is important for
> Europe. They even understood that "non-commercial" is not enough to exclude
> platforms that help to collaborately develop and share code under Free
> Software licenses. This means that on this limited subject the FSFE is taken
> seriously as someone to talk to.

I can not judge your last sentence, Bernhard, but I hope that's the case. :-)

Regards,
Christian
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