BEbenatkin·Dec 28, 2024
For reference the guy funding this is the same person this letter was sent to: https://github.com/drop-ice/dear-github-2.0
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| 2019 | 2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 10 | 4 | 6 |
| 2020 | 2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 3 | 0 | 3 |
| 2021 | 2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 0 | 1 |
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| 2024 | 2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 0 | 1 |
What Hacker News says
15 sources> Unlike Google they actually listen to their users. They were awesome during youtube-dl debacle.
I wouldn't say they were "awesome" during the youtube-dl stuff. They were slow to respond and non-transparent about what was happening behind the scenes.
Also, user's have been calling for GitHub to terminate their contract with ICE for a long time now[0] to no avail.
GitHub is better than most, no doubt, when it comes to "listen[ing] to their users" but they still have a ways to go.
[0](https://github.com/drop-ice/dear-github-2.0)
In GitHub Should Start an App StoreI moved my open source projects from Github to Gitlab, and you should too:
https://github.com/drop-ice/dear-github-2.0 https://github.com/selfagency/microsoft-drop-ice
In [dead]If only GitHub would do the same:
https://github.com/drop-ice/dear-github-2.0
https://github.com/selfagency/microsoft-drop-ice
In Hootsuite CEO terminating contract with ICE> Existing customers will have their bills automatically reduced going forward.
That is a class act right there.
Now, if you would open source github...
I kid. I have zero hope that that will ever happen.
It has always been bizarre (IMO) that arguably the most popular open source dev forge, er, hub, is closed and proprietary. But what can you do?
Remember when all those FOSS devs sent an open letter to github whining about that and begging for attention? https://github.com/dear-github/dear-github
(Ironically, they "signed" it by filling out a Google docs spreadsheet! As opposed to, say, patching a file.)
Utterly bizarre.
And now they have done it again, apparently because GitHub serves ICE: https://github.com/drop-ice/dear-github-2.0
They "call upon GitHub to: Immediately cancel your contract with ICE ; Commit yourself to a higher eth
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ical standard with all of your business dealings ..." [in writing]. But they stop short of threatening to leave if GitHub doesn't comply with their demands.
Leaving aside the politics of ICE, and the strangeness of talking to "GitHub" like it's a single person, it seems to me that without taking some action (like moving to e.g. Srht or self-hosting a DVCS hub) that this is just posturing.
Anyway, congratulations on sucking more air out of the room of FOSS development. In the words of the aforementioned, undersigned, concerned peasants, excuse me! users, of GitHub:
> We still believe in GitHub as a platform, as a place to help the open source community make the world a genuinely better place. Please, step up and join us.
Letter forgot to mention all the killers and rapists ICE removes form USA and keeping America SAFE #498 https://github.com/drop-ice/dear-github-2.0/issues/498
This issue makes a very good point!
In An open letter to GitHub from the maintainers of open source projectsAn intelligent comment on there: https://github.com/drop-ice/dear-github-2.0/issues/215#issue...
In An open letter to GitHub from the maintainers of open source projectsAn open letter to GitHub from the maintainers of open source projects
76 points · Open discussionDear GitHub 2.0: open letter to GitHub from maintainers of open source projects
3 points · Open discussionAn open letter to GitHub from the maintainers of open source projects
3 points · Open discussionI think you forgot to include the actual link to the GitHub repo: https://github.com/drop-ice/dear-github-2.0
In Developers join call for GitHub to cancel its ICE contractThe letter is here if you'd like to read it: https://github.com/drop-ice/dear-github-2.0
In Developers join call for GitHub to cancel its ICE contractIf ICE simply did their job in a humane but effective fashion, I think conversation around the agency would be far different.
However, the agency has - in the course of their duties - committed horrible acts that fly in the face of what Americans claim to value. They continue to do so, and the "Dear Github" letter linked in the article outlines them: https://github.com/drop-ice/dear-github-2.0/
The problem isn't simply that they're enforcing immigration law. It's _how_ they're doing it.
In Developers join call for GitHub to cancel its ICE contract"Track refugees" is an extremely charitable summary. I'd recommend reading the open letter [1] on GitHub and following some of the links. A short excerpt (with lots of links in the letter):
> ICE conducts random violent raids throughout the United States, invades communities and workplaces with military equipment, detains busses and trains, and arrests people solely on the basis of their perceived nationality, skin color, or native language. Their agents lurk outside of schools in order to abduct the children of immigrants and force their families to surrender themselves into custody. ICE imprisons people in deplorable and unsanitary conditions and denies them medical care.
[1] https://github.com/drop-ice/dear-github-2.0
In Developers join call for GitHub to cancel its ICE contract