Mark Allums writes:
> The onus is not on me to provide reasons. I simply asked for more
> info.
You initially asked for reasons; reasons were given. You haven't
responded to those, from what I can see, and AFAICT they answer the
initial reuest adequately.
As best I can tell, a reasonable person
On Saturday 18 May 2019 04:27:43 am Dominik George wrote:
> No. I, for one, do not care much who owns GitHub.
>
> Most of what's wrong there can be explained by stupidity or lack of
> care rather than being evil.
>
> And most companies seem to make one common mistake when it comes to
> diversity:
On Sat, May 18, 2019 at 02:37:09PM +0100, Brad Rogers wrote:
> On Sat, 18 May 2019 15:19:35 +0200
> wrote:
>
> Hello to...@tuxteam.de,
>
> >I'm not sure I should interpret that as trolling, misunderstanding
> >about what inclusive policies mean or what.
>
> More like reductio ad absurdum. The
On Sat, 18 May 2019 15:19:35 +0200
wrote:
Hello to...@tuxteam.de,
>I'm not sure I should interpret that as trolling, misunderstanding
>about what inclusive policies mean or what.
More like reductio ad absurdum. The point is, legislation cannot do
away with discrimination.
--
Regards _
On Sat, May 18, 2019 at 11:52:50AM +0100, Brad Rogers wrote:
> On Sat, 18 May 2019 10:27:43 +0200
> Dominik George wrote:
>
> Hello Dominik,
>
> >trans people, or the disabled. They don't get that choosing a set of
> >people to include, instead of removing *all* barriers, is
> >discrimination ra
On Sat, 18 May 2019 10:27:43 +0200
Dominik George wrote:
Hello Dominik,
>trans people, or the disabled. They don't get that choosing a set of
>people to include, instead of removing *all* barriers, is
>discrimination rather than inclusion.
The problem is that, in some countries, to combat disc
On Sat, May 18, 2019 at 10:51:40AM +0200, Dominik George wrote:
> >Yes, it does. Despite what others have said, there is a beneficial
> >patent
> >exhaustion effect. If software with patented algorithms is
> >distributed by the
> >patent owner, for example by Microsoft via GitHub, the patent is
Hi there
On 17/05/2019 09:28, Dominik George wrote:
please do*never* use GitHub for free software
Please explain, in detail, why.
If discrimination against parts of the community is not enough for you, here's
why:
https://mako.cc/writing/hill-free_tools.html
An overview;
https://en.wi
>Yes, it does. Despite what others have said, there is a beneficial
>patent
>exhaustion effect. If software with patented algorithms is
>distributed by the
>patent owner, for example by Microsoft via GitHub, the patent is
>exhausted.
>https://fosdem.org/2019/schedule/event/patent_exhaustion/
Ye
On Fri 17/May/2019 17:52:02 +0200 rhkramer wrote:
> On Friday, May 17, 2019 03:28:51 AM Dominik George wrote:
>> >> please do*never* use GitHub for free software
>> >
>> >Please explain, in detail, why.
>>
>> If discrimination against parts of the community is not enough for you,
>> here's why:
Hi,
>Why do these restrictions exist? The reason most social media services
>use an
>age limit of 13 or over is in part because of a law in the USA. The
>COPPA law
>or Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act states that any
>organisations or
>people operating online services (including social me
On 2019-05-18, Richard Hector wrote:
>
> I'm not going to read them again, but IIRC one of them referred to the
> GitHub ToC, which contained a bit about restricting accounts to those
> over 13 years of age, and claiming this was due to US law (but not
> specifying which law).
https://en.wikipedi
No. I, for one, do not care much who owns GitHub.
Most of what's wrong there can be explained by stupidity or lack of care rather
than being evil.
And most companies seem to make one common mistake when it comes to diversity:
They mistake diversity for caring for certain groups of people, often
Hi.
On Sat, May 18, 2019 at 01:53:30AM -0500, Mark Allums wrote:
> On 5/17/19 10:43 PM, Ben Finney wrote:
> > Mark Allums writes:
> >
> > > On 5/17/19 2:28 AM, Dominik George wrote:
> > > > > Please explain, in detail, why.
> > > > https://mako.cc/writing/hill-free_tools.html
> > > > htt
On 5/17/19 10:43 PM, Ben Finney wrote:
Mark Allums writes:
On 5/17/19 2:28 AM, Dominik George wrote:
Please explain, in detail, why.
https://mako.cc/writing/hill-free_tools.html
https://www.adamhyde.net/another-good-reason-not-to-use-github/
https://www.mirbsd.org/permalinks/wlog-10_e2017030
On 18/05/19 5:17 PM, Aidan Gauland wrote:
> On 18/05/19 11:08 AM, Dominik George wrote:
>>> Can you give sources for your claim about their discrimination? That
>>> one is new to me.
>> I did. Please read my mails in this thread.
> I have, and I just re-read the articles you gave, and I still do n
On 18/05/19 11:08 AM, Dominik George wrote:
>> Can you give sources for your claim about their discrimination? That
>> one is new to me.
> I did. Please read my mails in this thread.
I have, and I just re-read the articles you gave, and I still do not see
anything about discrimination by age, or a
Mark Allums writes:
> On 5/17/19 2:28 AM, Dominik George wrote:
> >> Please explain, in detail, why.
> > https://mako.cc/writing/hill-free_tools.html
> > https://www.adamhyde.net/another-good-reason-not-to-use-github/
> > https://www.mirbsd.org/permalinks/wlog-10_e20170301-tg.htm
>
> I'm not conv
On Fri, 17 May 2019 17:57:55 +0200
Dominik George wrote:
> >Does putting software on GitHub give them any kind of claim on the
> >intellectual property of the software?
>
> No.
>
No, not now
But when, matter of time I guess.
Been there, done that.
>Can you give sources for your claim about their discrimination? That
>one is new to me.
I did. Please read my mails in this thread.
-nik
On 17/05/19 7:28 PM, Dominik George wrote:
>>> please do*never* use GitHub for free software
>> Please explain, in detail, why.
> If discrimination against parts of the community is not enough for you,
> here's why:
>
> https://mako.cc/writing/hill-free_tools.html
>
> https://www.adamhyde.net/ano
On Fri, May 17, 2019 at 11:52:02AM -0400, rhkra...@gmail.com wrote:
[...]
> Does putting software on GitHub give them any kind of claim on the
> intellectual property of the software?
Absolutely not. *If* there's a strategy behind that (there might be, to
the tune of $7.5B), it has to be more s
>Does putting software on GitHub give them any kind of claim on the
>intellectual property of the software?
No.
On Friday, May 17, 2019 03:28:51 AM Dominik George wrote:
> >> please do*never* use GitHub for free software
> >
> >Please explain, in detail, why.
>
> If discrimination against parts of the community is not enough for you,
> here's why:
>
> https://mako.cc/writing/hill-free_tools.html
>
> http
On 17/05/2019 09:39, to...@tuxteam.de wrote:
> On Fri, May 17, 2019 at 09:28:51AM +0200, Dominik George wrote:
please do*never* use GitHub for free software
>
> [links]
>
> Thanks for the links. Up to now, I avoided Github mainly because
> I'm always wary of those "open core", which pay
On Fri, May 17, 2019 at 09:28:51AM +0200, Dominik George wrote:
> >> please do*never* use GitHub for free software
[links]
Thanks for the links. Up to now, I avoided Github mainly because
I'm always wary of those "open core", which pay lip service to
"Open Source" (and make heavy use of free sof
On 5/17/19 2:28 AM, Dominik George wrote:
please do*never* use GitHub for free software
Please explain, in detail, why.
If discrimination against parts of the community is not enough for you, here's
why:
https://mako.cc/writing/hill-free_tools.html
https://www.adamhyde.net/another-good-re
>> please do*never* use GitHub for free software
>
>Please explain, in detail, why.
If discrimination against parts of the community is not enough for you, here's
why:
https://mako.cc/writing/hill-free_tools.html
https://www.adamhyde.net/another-good-reason-not-to-use-github/
https://www.mirb
On 5/16/19 11:34 AM, Dominik George wrote:
please do*never* use GitHub for free software
Please explain, in detail, why.
Mark
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