GNU Rates GitHub & SourceForge With "F" Ratings

[nils_]

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?

Or manpages, I mean that's pretty much mansplaining right there

[unixfan2001]

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

GitHub is getting pretty close to being SJW converged, so even an F- evaluation would probably be fair at this point.

Oh, look! Someone was born without a sense of humour.
Shall I open up a help fund for you poor, little guys?

[unixfan2001]

As for the topic at hand:

Oddly enough, their F rating of Github matches exactly what I'd rate the FSF's overall relevance.

[geearf]

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.

Hmm, you're saying that the Free Software Foundation should promote non-Free Software.
That doesn't seem to compute well...
As for the rest, Free Software is not about quality so that's orthogonal.

[Emdek]

FSF should embrace closed source and wish more users used high quality locked systems.

Yeah, Embrace, Extend and Extinguish. ]:->

[PyroDevil]

The FSF does have a mostly extreme opinion, but I think they are correct in many ways and consistent in their views and goals and that is good.

The FSF is not here to make decisions, they are here as a reminder and advisor for more pragmatic people making those. So its always good to listen to them and then trying the best to get to this ideal world were everything is free.

[mulenmar]

Savannah has a few rough edges -- the look isn't consistent with other GNU sites and the search listing for the full list of all hosted projects includes projects with blank, unclickable names that might as well not exist, for example. It otherwise seems alright. I suspect the reason it isn't more popular is because people assume that anything hosted there *must* be under (L)GPL.

"Your license should be compatible with the GNU GPL, current version or later. (This includes LGPL*-only, since all LGPL versions can be converted to any version of the GPL. Of course, we strongly recommend against using LGPL*-only. And GPL*-only is not acceptable.)" -- http://savannah.gnu.org/maintenance/...ngRequirements

You can dual-license code, too. http://savannah.gnu.org/maintenance/DualLicensing covers that.

Editing the "Why Choose Savannah?" page (which is linked on the front page) to clarify which licenses are allowed might help, as would some advertised "Migrate from other hosting service" tools.

[anda_skoa]

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.

Haha, great reminder on how primitive the proprietary shills were back in the 90s, with their limited education, thinking that communism was a bad word anywhere else than their little corner of the universe

I am just afraid those who haven't been around back then will take your great satirical piece as a serious comment or at least bad trolling.

Cheers,
_

[elldekaa]

The FSF does have a mostly extreme opinion, but I think they are correct in many ways and consistent in their views and goals and that is good.

The FSF is not here to make decisions, they are here as a reminder and advisor for more pragmatic people making those. So its always good to listen to them and then trying the best to get to this ideal world were everything is free.

Totally agree. If only they focused a bit more on the practical aspect of their projects, their opinion would have a better impact.

[karolherbst]

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.

right they are being completly childish about this...