I've been asked a few times in the past week to use #GitHub, and I'd like to be helpful, but I keep seeing Renée Good's face and it would seem disrespectful somehow.
Happy to email a patch, but I'm done with that site.
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@dentangle I feel like Microsoft still isn't mentioned often enough in the Github context.
Microsoft.
Microsoft is Github. No idea how people can rationalize that away. 🤦
@mray It seems odd to need to use Microsoft to contribute to Free Software.
Maybe we need to call it Microsoft Github routinely? There's nothing on the Github website even mentioning Microsoft so am guessing they don't like people making the connection?
When I started calling the book review site Amazon Goodreads, judging by replies a lot of people didn't realise who owned Goodreads. (And the Goodreads website is also devoid of Amazon branding as if they don't want people noticing.)
@FediThing @dentangle @mray TIL about Goodreads
@FediThing @dentangle @mray Oof, didn't know about Goodreads, thanks.
@FediThing @dentangle @mray I guess that is Copilot GitHub nowadays?
@FediThing @dentangle @mray LibraryThing is as well.
@FediThing
I like that a lot. So much of how a few huge companies come to own everything has to be that branding obscures that all these different things are all really one company. Not just the tech sector, for sure.
@FediThing @mray Good thinking. I should do that more consistently.
Same, just thought of it when reading @mray 's comment.
@dentangle that now makes me wonder why this ticket was closed without any comment: https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab/-/issues/423228
If it were possible to do cross-instance forks and PRs then I'd be all-in for #Gitlab.
@T_X @dentangle FYI: GitLab happily collaborates with ICE.
Here's what GitLab's CEO, Sid Sijbrandij, himself committed:
https://gitlab.com/gitlab-com/www-gitlab-com/-/commit/b5a35716deb4f63299a23a40510475f5503c11c4
> vetting customers is time consuming and potentially distracting.
GitLab employees are forbidden to discuss politics at work or raise concerns about GitLab's customers.
Even when it's perfectly clear that a customer is evil, they want to "do business with customers with values that are incompatible with our own values".
They "welcome everyone […] to be customers of GitLab" as they "do not currently exclude anyone from being a customer based on moral/value grounds."
Here's a news article:
https://www.theregister.co.uk/2019/10/16/gitlab_employees_gagged/
