Thanks for this Neil. On Wed, Aug 14, 2019 at 2:28 AM Neil Van Dyke <n...@neilvandyke.org> wrote:
> I know this particular one is a minor thing, but they add up, over time... > > Please consider approaches that are open, rather than owned, and try not > to increase lock-in by big-business plays. > > It's pragmatic to keep using GitHub in limited ways right now, *but* > part of that is being judicious about creeping lock-in, which is a > pattern we've seen for decades (and the current owner of GitHub has been > one of the most epic abusers). > > To use GitHub as an example, though this is not specific to them: They > are not your friend. They used to seem like your friend, but that > friendship was worth fewer than 7.5 billion dollars. > > When you effectively partner with such a company, approach it as an > temporary alliance, limit their power over you, and keep trying to > increase your options/freedom. > > Also, consider what you're promoting, especially to impressionable > students around Racket. Every use is effectively you endorsing > something questionable. > This is an appropriate reminder that there is a range of different costs to these 'free' services. I understand SE in higher education does try to include 'software and society', but I suspect this is something that is missed - and many developers don't enter the profession via a SE higher-ed pathways. I hope my response was appropriate. I do appreciate your advice and guidance. Keep it coming. Maybe it's time to poke the Conservancy. It should be on their radar by > now, and some of the solution applies to all projects. > While SFC provides many great services listed at https://sfconservancy.org/projects/services/, technical solutions are not in their remit, so it falls to us. With that in mind, I tried specifying a version 'alternate' in https://pkgd.racket-lang.org a way of mitigating this risk, but sadly it failed with an error. (logged as https://github.com/racket/pkg-index/issues/21 ) Kind regards, Stephen -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Racket Users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to racket-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/racket-users/CAGHj7-KjT18nvADiSLt6B%2BgpXwLfDhnaVNG10qfzKjBDnmc%3DWg%40mail.gmail.com.
