GNU Rates GitHub & SourceForge With "F" Ratings

[k1l_]

So the FSF tests some code hosters and their own thingy is the only one that gets the "A"? So i guess we ask Apple what the best Smartphone is, right?

[AdamOne]

Like most things from the Free Software Foundation - it makes very little sense.

[VikingGe]

Check this out:
https://github.com/antirez/redis/issues/3185

Is this written in some alien language that incidentally uses English grammar and vocabulary or is that really an English-speaking guy complaining about the words "master" and "slave" being racist? What's next, sending people to jail every time they kill -9 a process?

As for the rest... honestly, I don't give two shits about whether the javascript libraries someone uses are free or not, especially if I hardly ever need the website in order to use the service. I don't see any reason to even care about LibreJS. Stuff like blocking countries or not infesting binary installers with malware might be just a tiny little bit more relevant...

You can GPG sign your commits and tags:

Thanks for the info, didn't know until know.

[Delgarde]

Yikes that's pathetic. These "offended" people should find a new line of work. Flipping burgers seems more their speed.

Not sure they're qualified for something as complex as that....

[karolherbst]

by the way, there is no way to get a D or E rating, so....

[Goddard]

What really turned me off towards GitHub was the fact their editor which is open source has metrics enabled by default. Read more here - http://ryeingoddard.com/2015/11/atom...ed-by-default/

I talked with them and they didn't really seem to care.

GitLab is a good option. People depend way to much on GitHub.

[sadiq]

(For those who doesn't consider FSF to be doing a good thing.)

Most of us are unaware of how much insecure we are. A recent discussion in an FSF mailing list was that, we should not be using cdn from google or others to provide fonts, etc. because this way the provider (google) will know that the user has visited the site. Some might feel this insane.

Why should one consider about non-free javascript? right? its a known fact that javascript can be used to track you: https://nakedsecurity.sophos.com/201...ow-to-stop-it/ javascript can be used to track the user's actions. If you are not concerned about your privacy/security, will you ever check what code is run by the websites you visit?

What if the website is a bank's website? You may be using touchscreen, or you may be using virtual keyboard provided by the bank. How do you know that a third party isn't watching you?

This happens everywhere: http://www.indiatimes.com/news/india...el-233438.html

Its sure that we can't ever be 100% secure, but we should know the possible vulnerabilities. That's what FSF is trying to do, though most don't think.

[karolherbst]

thing is. github works without javascript, but FSF seems to found something which doesn't work, but doesn't tell us what.... sooo they published something like that without being transparent about it.

[caligula]

Again the toenail eating communists are hurting the user by spreading propaganda against evil corporations. Why can't the FSF/GNU help the user by supporting more liberal licenses like MIT or heck even closed source proprietary? Many users want freedom of choice and oftentimes closed source is the best in terms of quality because it costs so much. FSF should embrace closed source and wish more users used high quality locked systems.

[tegs]

They choose to shame GitLab for not using LibreJS specific tags, which is unfair considering these tags are not standardized and therefore not used by 99% of websites.