GitHub lost $66M in nine months of 2016

Re:GitHub lost $66M in nine months of 2016 by flukus on Friday December 16, 2016 @05:17AM (#13192251)

> but if you really didn't care about politics, you would keep using GitHub until they kick you off of it for thoughtcrime

I do care about politics, but it is irrelevant to my projects. The time to care about losing access to your source code is before you lose access to it (like backups). Github has shown that there is a signifact risk to hosting my code there so I'm moving off it.

> It honestly just seems that you want a platform whose politics you agree with, and don't want to use a platform whose politics you disagree with.

No, it want a platform that doesn't get involved with politics. Just like I don't care about the politics of any other service I use, as long as it doesn't interfere with my using it.

> Nonetheless, it's still a politics. Politics is unavoidable, it is a consequence of being able to think and disagree.

So you'd be happy to shop somewhere that doesn't allow gay people?

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Re:GitHub lost $66M in nine months of 2016 by jolux on Friday December 16, 2016 @02:37PM (#13196078)

>Just like I don't care about the politics of any other service I use, as long as it doesn't interfere with my using it.

So I'll ask again. How, concretely, do Coraline's politics interfere with your current usage of GitHub?

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Re:GitHub lost $66M in nine months of 2016 by flukus on Friday December 16, 2016 @03:08PM (#13196309)

They don't interfere with my current usage. I'm concerned it will interfere with my future usage and I'm taking steps to ensure that doesn't happen.

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Re:GitHub lost $66M in nine months of 2016 by jolux on Saturday December 17, 2016 @04:27PM (#13202749)

>I'm concerned it will interfere with my future usage and I'm taking steps to ensure that doesn't happen.

And how do you know Coraline wasn't interacting in the same vein?

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