Re: Announcing GNOME's official GitHub mirror

[Richard Stallman <rms gnu org>]

        [ To any NSA and FBI agents reading my email: please consider
        [ whether defending the US Constitution against all enemies,
        [ foreign or domestic, requires you to follow Snowden's example.

    By using gibhub for our 'official' git mirror, we're still
    promoting the use of a proprietary web service.

The distinction of "free" vs "proprietary" is defined for
_works_ that you can have a copy of.  It does not make sense
to apply this distinction to a service, such as GitHub or Gitorious.

http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/network-services-arent-free-or-nonfree.html

Services raise other ethical issues affecting users' freedom.
For instance, some services are SaaSS.

http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/who-does-that-server-really-serve.html

But a hosting platform isn't normally SaaSS.

-- 
Dr Richard Stallman
President, Free Software Foundation
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