On 11/24/2014 06:27 PM, Donald Stufft wrote: > On Nov 24, 2014, at 8:59 PM, Ethan Furman wrote: >> >> It is sounding to me like GitHub is not, itself, an open solution, even >> though >> they may support open source. > > I’d agree if the tooling was comparable, but at the end of the day the closed > source tool is better and more popular. It isn’t Python’s job to fall on the > sword in the name of some greater ideology while other languages get to pick > the tooling that best enables them to serve the faith that their users have > put > in them. “Practicality beats Purity” after all. > > You might lament the fact that the closed source tool is the better option, > but > the right response to that is to make an OSS alternative that is more, or at > least as, compelling as the closed source solution and then market that and > win.
Or, make a list of the must-haves from the (for whatever reason) controversial choice, and implement them in our own infrastructure. (Yeah, I guess I'm volunteering to help with that effort. ;) -- ~Ethan~
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