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On Mon, May 11, 2015 at 10:44 AM, C Bergström <cbergstrom@×××××××××.com> wrote: |
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> What I'm describing is not "gmail" - it's everything that gmail has |
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> and offers, but @gentoo.org domain. I'm using it right now in fact. |
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> You get the web interface, IMAP, POP, 2 token authentication (if you |
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> want to enabled it) and lots of other things. etc etc |
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How about the source code? |
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> It used to be free, but now google charges for it with an exception |
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> for non-profits. |
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The social contract isn't about free-of-cost. In fact, Gentoo pays |
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for a number of services (often below commercial rates, but not |
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everybody can afford to donate 100% of what we need). We've even paid |
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for a bug bounty on one occasion. The social contract is about |
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free-as-in-freedom. We don't depend on proprietary services as much |
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as possible. |
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We even have debates over the use of github, since the pull request |
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side isn't really FOSS. It is tolerated mainly because we have FOSS |
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alternatives as well, and bugzilla is still the primary bug |
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tracker/etc. To the extent that github is just used as a hosting |
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provider for git it is completely compatible with the social contract, |
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and would be so even if we were paying for it. |
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All that said, being non-profit we still try to use donations of |
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services anytime we can. Our mirror network is probably the biggest |
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example of this - we have an insane amount of mirror bandwidth and |
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there is no way an org of our size could afford to pay for it on our |
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own. Next time you do an emerge --sync take a look at the |
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hostnames/MOTDs/etc and be sure to appreciate them in some way. |
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Rich |
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