[core-workflow] Software Factory

[Brett Cannon]

On Sat, 28 Nov 2015 at 11:35 Stefan Krah <skrah.temporarily at gmail.com>
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>     >> 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.
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> > Do their terms of service even allow for that, or is this just
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> 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.
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But the service is free to open source only. GitHub makes all of their
money from private hosting services to large companies. So it's a freemium
model of "try our service out for free as long as you make your code
public, and if you like it and want to use it at work then pay us". So I
don't view this as the same model that Google et. al. uses where you are
the product to advertisers, but more like mobile games where people are
trying to entice you to buy "upgrades".


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> 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.
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> GitHub's TOS appear to be entirely silent on the subject, but they
> are already publishing aggregate data like
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>   https://github.com/torvalds ,
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I believe you have to make your profile public for that to be viewable.

-Brett


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