[Python-Dev] Move selected documentation repos to PSF BitBucket account? (original) (raw)

Wes Turner wes.turner at gmail.com
Mon Nov 24 11:21:03 CET 2014

On Nov 24, 2014 3:12 AM, "Nick Coghlan" <ncoghlan at gmail.com> wrote:

On 24 Nov 2014 10:41, "Donald Stufft" <donald at stufft.io> wrote: > > > > On Nov 23, 2014, at 6:57 PM, Steven D'Aprano <steve at pearwood.info> wrote: > > > > On Sun, Nov 23, 2014 at 08:55:50AM -0800, Guido van Rossum wrote: > > > >> But I strongly believe that if we want to do the right thing for the > >> long term, we should switch to GitHub. > > > > Encouraging a software, or social, monopoly is never the right thing for > > the long term. > > > > http://nedbatchelder.com/blog/201405/githubmonoculture.html > > I don’t think this is really all that big of a deal. If we want to move > off of Github doing so is easy. It's only easy to leave if you never adopt any GitHub-only services like Travis CI. It's the same lockin play as the one Google uses: make it easy for people to move their data, so they're less likely to notice you're locking them in with proprietary APIs and ecosystems instead.

For this acquisition; is there a feature comparison matrix with alternatives across the top and namespaced features along the side?

You unlikely to see significant amounts of VC funding pouring into a company unless the investors see a possible chance to extract monopoly rents at some point in the future. Cheers, Nick.

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