7 Sep
2023
7 Sep
'23
8:26 a.m.
On Wed, 6 Sep 2023 18:26:00 +0200
Francesco Ariis <fa-ml(a)ariis.it> wrote:
Il 06 settembre 2023 alle 18:10 Robin Gareus ha
scritto:
The real danger is indirect. I don't think anyone could effectively steal FOSS
code. It's collating this all the other info about someone.
There was a case in the UK a few years ago where a guy announced to his social
media friends he was taking a month's holiday abroad. While he was away someone
was able to glean enough information to completely impersonate him and sell his
house.
--
Will J Godfrey {apparently now an 'elderly'}
https://willgodfrey.bandcamp.com/
http://yoshimi.github.io
Say you have a poem and I have a tune.
Exchange them and we can both have a poem, a tune, and a song.
For free/libre software, the source-code is
already out there. Short of
making some political statement, moving the repository does not make a
difference. Since git is decentralized you can push to any number of
remotes. In fact anyone can mirror any existing public git-repo.
Git is decentralised but GitHub is not, Open-source infrastructure
is a definite plus not to suffer from lock-in (you don’t just have repos
there, but collaboration tools, issue tracker, CI, etc.). Plus there are
additional considerations to be had, e.g. GitHub partnering with OpenAI.
There is an excellent thread on Lemmy about FOSS forges:
https://lemmy.ml/post/4291205