GitHub is now free for teams

Re:GitHub is now free for teams by vbezhenar on Tuesday April 14, 2020 @02:04PM (#22869292)

We're living with transparent juridical system and it works fine. Imagine that you could be thrown to jail without explaining a reason. That would be outrageous.

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Re:GitHub is now free for teams by candiodari on Tuesday April 14, 2020 @04:29PM (#22871063)

1) You can be thrown into jail without any explanation whatsoever.

2) You can be shot without any explanation whatsoever.

3) Your possessions can be taken away, and sold off without any explanation and without recourse.

Links about each of these claims:

https://abovethelaw.com/2018/07/innocent-people-who-plead-gu...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shooting_of_Walter_Scott

https://www.forbes.com/sites/jacobsullum/2014/09/11/how-cops... (also applies to, say, cars)

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Re:GitHub is now free for teams by Mountain_Skies on Tuesday April 14, 2020 @11:40PM (#22874275)

So GitHub should aspire to do the same?

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Re:GitHub is now free for teams by toyg on Tuesday April 14, 2020 @02:25PM (#22869570)

> transparent juridical system and it works fine

Yeah, criminals are always arrested and convicted. /s

It's a balance. With something as essential as human rights and personal freedom, people (tend to) err on the safe side. Online moderation can err on the other side, since consequences are relatively modest. If you get banned on GH, move to Gitlab or host your own, that's hardly a tragedy.

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Re:GitHub is now free for teams by FpUser on Tuesday April 14, 2020 @04:09PM (#22870844)

That is exactly what I do. I use self hosted solutions for my source code repositories. I just can't digest my code being handled by some other entity. Too important.

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Re:GitHub is now free for teams by endgame on Tuesday April 14, 2020 @07:33PM (#22872745)

Amazing that you got downvoted for this. I pay for code hosting precisely because I want to see an ecosystem of code hosts, and monocultures are dangerous.

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Re:GitHub is now free for teams by FpUser on Wednesday April 15, 2020 @12:57AM (#22874659)

Well I've never downvoted a single post no matter how much I disliked it. Personally I consider this a kind of weakness and the whole system as promoting herd mentality. But whatever floats their boat.

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Re:GitHub is now free for teams by 2OEH8eoCRo0 on Wednesday April 15, 2020 @02:51PM (#22881531)

Exactly. Screw around and try to game/skirt the law IRL and the risk is way too high that you'll goto jail anyway. There are usually no consequences for doing this online.

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Re:GitHub is now free for teams by saagarjha on Tuesday April 14, 2020 @02:59PM (#22870022)

Online moderation is an issue of personal rights.

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Re:GitHub is now free for teams by pc86 on Tuesday April 14, 2020 @03:21PM (#22870298)

Not in the Constitutional sense, and not in anything administered by GitHub.

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Re:GitHub is now free for teams by aaron_m04 on Wednesday April 15, 2020 @10:36AM (#22878195)

It should be!

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Re:GitHub is now free for teams by koheripbal on Tuesday April 14, 2020 @06:22PM (#22872209)

Are you willing to pay taxes for github usage!? You get what you pay for.

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Re:GitHub is now free for teams by int_19h on Wednesday April 15, 2020 @04:40AM (#22875711)

If it guaranteed that the repos stay up in perpetuity, that sounds amazing, actually.

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