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On 05/11/2015 10:21 AM, C Bergström wrote: |
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> On Mon, May 11, 2015 at 9:59 PM, Rich Freeman <rich0@g.o> wrote: |
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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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> Do you have the source for github? |
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No, but we get flack for that all the time, I'd personally like to see |
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us use bitbucket as they have a more opensource and doc'd stack. |
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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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> There are "free" alternatives and this is the exact same thing as |
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> github. IMAP and POP are comparable to git as google hosted apps is |
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> comparable to github. There's a line between being passionate and |
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> ignoring a sensible good alternative. I can't say where to draw that |
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> line, but imho I hope pragmatic people will take a look instead of |
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> just dismissing it. |
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> Oh and btw - the whole problem comes because people are forwarding to |
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> gmail. Is that open source? It's clear a large number of people |
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> already use and depend on the exact same service I'm suggesting. How |
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> on earth could those same people object... (I don't see the open |
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> source communit up in arms over yahoo mail and gmail..) |
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> /* I'm just trying to level the conversation in terms of "social |
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> contract" and what people generally find acceptable */ |
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> Do you own a phone that connects to this email? Android, iOS.. etc |
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> aren't "open source", but somehow we survive.. |
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-- Matthew Thode (prometheanfire) |