[Zope-dev] We need to change how code ownership works.

[Charlie Clark]

Am 20.08.2012, 12:50 Uhr, schrieb Robert Niederreiter <rnix at squarewave.at>:

> On 20.08.2012 12:39, Charlie Clark wrote:
>> Am 20.08.2012, 12:27 Uhr, schrieb Robert Niederreiter  
>> <rnix at squarewave.at>:
>>
>>> There are lots of very famous os projects hostet on github - which -
>>> without any doubt raises the reputation of github itself.
>>
>> ah, the common cold defence: everyone has it so it must be good.
> no, just a manner of chance.
>
> and even if, git is not proprietary.

Git is the tool and not the service.

>>>  https://github.com/popular/starred
>>>  i doubt that github i willing to get into the doghouse by doing
>>> really nasty things - and thus getting into risk of loosing projects.
>>
>> This is pure speculation, or are you privy to board decisions at Github.
> see above, git is not proprietary. nobody is trapped inside github at  
> all if nasty things happen.

Changes to the T&C's that substantially affect this can happen at any time.

>>>  lots of you also use gmail, g+ or other stuff, where i have more
>>> concerns about abuse than at github...
>>
>> This irrelevant in the context of ownership and copyright.
> you came up with concerns against VC's. So in which context was this  
> meant then?

Without wanting to start a diatribe against VC's: the key term was  
"beholden to". VC's are understandably interested in a quick and  
substantial return on their investment and will do whatever it takes to  
achieve that. They are not philanthropists and ownership is a key lever  
for them. This is a fundamentally different proposition to paying for a  
service from a company or setting up an organisation to do it yourself.  
There is no free lunch.

Charlie
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