[core-workflow] Software Factory

[Stefan Krah]

[Brett]

    >> If GitHub turns evil, it will be most likely by selling this
    >> nicely packaged information to recruiters.  It's too late to move
    >> away then, the statistics will have been collected already.

> Do their terms of service even allow for that, or is this just speculation
on your part?


When exploring a worst case scenario, some level of speculation is
probably inevitable.  The guideline "if a service is free, you are
the product" is pretty well established -- I cannot think of an
example where it has actually been refuted.

I do not know whether explicit permission to resell data that is
technically public is required in the U.S.  Note that while the
data is "public", data mining GitHub by third parties seems to
be forbidden.


GitHub's TOS appear to be entirely silent on the subject, but they
are already publishing aggregate data like

  https://github.com/torvalds ,


which by my (European) privacy point of view is already stretching
and exceeding the limits of good taste.



Stefan Krah