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1. Strypey (strypey@mastodon.nzoss.nz)'s status on Saturday, 19-Jan-2019 03:04:43 EST Strypey

   It just occurred to me that #GitHub ran out of money and had to sell themselves to MS. While companies like #Loomio, whose code is 100% free under #AGPL, and #Wire (A/GPL), are still in business. Doesn't that prove that the infamous "#OpenSource almost everything" creed of the GH founders is a failure, and you might as well free all your code? (looking at you #GitLab)
   http://tom.preston-werner.com/2011/11/22/open-source-everything.html

   1. Strypey (strypey@mastodon.nzoss.nz)'s status on Saturday, 19-Jan-2019 03:06:37 EST Strypey

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      Also, GH use "MIT" for everything and died as an independent company, while these aforementioned companies who use #copyleft licenses are still afloat. Take note.

      1. musicman (musicman@nu.federati.net)'s status on Thursday, 24-Jan-2019 22:20:08 EST musicman

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         plenty of #copyleft projects have died too. I think you way oversimplifying running a business
   2. musicman (musicman@nu.federati.net)'s status on Thursday, 24-Jan-2019 21:21:37 EST musicman

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      no, it doesn't prove that. GitHub is twice the size of Gitlab if you look at employees. Loomio is two orders of magnitude smaller than GitHub. eye-balling the picture, Wire is about an order of magnitude smaller than Gitlab.
      
      I am not saying your theory is wrong, but there are so many other reasons GitHub could have ran out of money.
      1. lnxw48a1 (lnxw48a1@nu.federati.net)'s status on Friday, 25-Jan-2019 05:15:22 EST lnxw48a1

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         @musicman @strypey I don't know if #Github sold themselves because they were running out of money, but just a few years ago, freedom-focused projects that did not use GH because of its proprietary secret sauce faced a rushed move when a less-proprietary competitor called #Gitorious closed. Many of these other platforms were not well-known until that event.
         1. lnxw48a1 (lnxw48a1@nu.federati.net)'s status on Friday, 25-Jan-2019 05:24:15 EST lnxw48a1

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            @musicman @strypey@quitter.se This is just a data point to consider, not a comment on the argument's validity.
         2. musicman (musicman@nu.federati.net)'s status on Friday, 25-Jan-2019 09:06:42 EST musicman

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            I had projects on gitorious. I think I just let them die. Or maybe I had forked them off of GitHub.
            
            Yeah, I didn't want to argue that point.
            1. Strypey (strypey@mastodon.nzoss.nz)'s status on Sunday, 03-Mar-2019 04:34:14 EST Strypey

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               @musicman @lnxw48a1 I wasn't arguing that releasing all code under #copyleft licenses is a guarantee of business success. Clearly, it isn't. My point was that the experience of GH debunks Preston's claim (that keeping the key bits of your software non-free is a better business strategy than freeing all the code). Ergo, given all the other reasons for liberating code, and one less reason for keeping it (or some of it) non-free, why not liberate?