Re: Announcing GNOME's official GitHub mirror

[Philip Van Hoof <philip codeminded be>]

Richard Stallman wrote on 17/08/2013 1:10:

I don't think it'll make much of a difference as neither technical nor 
philosophical arguments are often part of, not what gets discussed at 
GNOME but, what gets decided. To make sure that it's noted I do agree 
with Richard on this:

> But I don't think that applies to most of what GitHub or Savannah does.
> Those are communication activities.  You couldn't do them by calling
> a library in your own computer.  So it is ok to use services for that
> (but pay attention to the privacy issues).  However, it would be nice
> if we could do it in a peer-to-peer fashion.
I also wonder what Github offers that can't be done peer to peer. Note 
that I lack experience in the magic of quantum-marketing iCloud stuff.


Kind regards,

Philip