* Stefano Zacchiroli <[email protected]> [2012-06-14 16:56:39 CEST]: > On Thu, Jun 14, 2012 at 09:31:39AM +0900, Charles Plessy wrote: > > I have not added links to their competitors, as I think that it would > > be bad taste, but yes, I invite every developer to consider Free > > alternatives such as Gitorious or Branchable. > > To be blunt, I think that our advocacy for software freedoms is more > important than good taste. Given how you worded the README (i.e. along > the lines of "some of the software we work with is already on > GitHub..."), it would be entirely appropriate to recommend favoring > Gitorious, Branchable or similar services over GitHub. Especially, but > not only, for new software. I would also add a link to > http://autonomo.us/2008/07/franklin-street-statement/ given that > non-free-ness is not the only problem with GitHub-like offerings.
Or have http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:http://mako.cc/writing/hill-free_tools.html for a good read on the topic, out from our own people, and a bit more recent. (unfortunately mako.cc seems to be not running a webservice right now, thus the google cache version) So long, Rhonda -- Fühlst du dich mutlos, fass endlich Mut, los | Fühlst du dich hilflos, geh raus und hilf, los | Wir sind Helden Fühlst du dich machtlos, geh raus und mach, los | 23.55: Alles auf Anfang Fühlst du dich haltlos, such Halt und lass los | -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
