Rtorrent: Moving Away from Github

Created on 4 Jun 2018 · 4Comments · Source: rakshasa/rtorrent

For a torrent client as important as rtorrent I think it shouldn't be hosted on Github, which is now owned by Microsoft. Maybe it could be considered to move to Gitlab? Gitlab is itself FOSS which is great. I believe you made rtorrent free software because you believe in the spirit of free software, but continuing to stay on Github would go directly against that spirit and it would be quite ironic.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-06-03/microsoft-is-said-to-have-agreed-to-acquire-coding-site-github

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If this was 15 years ago I would have agreed, however the world has moved
on and MS is no longer the big enemy of FOSS it used to be.

I'm way more worried about how google, facebook and twitter are
manipulating people's filter bubbles on a massive scale, and the way they
censor and suppress political views they disagree with.

On 4 June 2018 at 17:57, Hyleus notifications@github.com wrote:

For a torrent client as important as rtorrent I think it shouldn't be
hosted on Github, which is now owned by Microsoft. Maybe it could be
considered to move to Gitlab? Gitlab is itself FOSS which is great. I
believe you made rtorrent free software because you believe in the spirit
of free software, but continuing to stay on Github would go directly
against that spirit and it would be quite ironic.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-06-03/
microsoft-is-said-to-have-agreed-to-acquire-coding-site-github

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If this was 15 years ago I would have agreed, however the world has moved
on and MS is no longer the big enemy of FOSS it used to be.

I'm way more worried about how google, facebook and twitter are
manipulating people's filter bubbles on a massive scale, and the way they
censor and suppress political views they disagree with.

On 4 June 2018 at 17:57, Hyleus notifications@github.com wrote:

For a torrent client as important as rtorrent I think it shouldn't be
hosted on Github, which is now owned by Microsoft. Maybe it could be
considered to move to Gitlab? Gitlab is itself FOSS which is great. I
believe you made rtorrent free software because you believe in the spirit
of free software, but continuing to stay on Github would go directly
against that spirit and it would be quite ironic.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-06-03/
microsoft-is-said-to-have-agreed-to-acquire-coding-site-github

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rakshasa on 5 Jun 2018

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I'm way more worried about how google, facebook and twitter are
manipulating people's filter bubbles on a massive scale, and the way they
censor and suppress political views they disagree with.

Unfortunately this is only the tip of the iceberg ... :(