diff --git a/index.html b/index.html index 27fc5a6..ef2dccb 100644 --- a/index.html +++ b/index.html @@ -83,13 +83,6 @@ real time.</p> </section> - -<!-- Denver: you can edit above all you want --> -<!-- bkuhn promises to not work above here --> -<!-- bkuhn is still working on the below: --> - -<!-- NO ONE BUT BKUHN EDIT BELOW YET: --> - <section> <h3>Post-Sourceforge Diaspora</h3> <ul><li>Berlios</li> @@ -103,6 +96,29 @@ </section> +<!-- Denver: you can edit above all you want --> +<!-- bkuhn promises to not work above here --> +<!-- bkuhn is still working on the below: --> + +<!-- NO ONE BUT BKUHN EDIT BELOW YET: --> + + +<section> +<!-- Next slide --> + + + <h2 class="top-title">An Old bkuhn Slide</h2> +<img src="preston-werner.jpg" align="right" /> +<p align="left"> + • Tom Preston-Werner<br/> + •the <a href="http://tom.preston-werner.com/2011/11/22/open-source-everything.html">“open source almost everything”</a> guy<br/> + •claimed at OSCON 2013:<br/> + •“The GPL is a license of restrictions; I don’t like restrictions. just use MIT”<br/> +</p> + </section> +</section> + + <section> <h3 >Follow-Up / Talk License</h3> diff --git a/what-bkuhn-was-going-to-say.md b/what-bkuhn-was-going-to-say.md index 894e47c..6a00e30 100644 --- a/what-bkuhn-was-going-to-say.md +++ b/what-bkuhn-was-going-to-say.md @@ -146,3 +146,45 @@ that, by the time AJAX and Web 2.0 came along, there was not enough leadership to move an old PHP+HTML application to the more interactive and modern looks that users were demanding by the late 2000s. [ switch slides ] + +## Preston-Warner: Slide 4 + +Enter GitHub, founded in October 2007. GitHub from its very founding learned +the VA Linux lesson: don't ever give anyone code, and in fact, take great +efforts to convince the FOSS community that copyleft, particularly the Affero +GPL are terrible. + +Enter GitHub, founded in October 2007. GitHub from its very founding learned +the VA Linux lesson: don't ever give anyone any code: keep it all +proprietary — and if you must release FOSS, do it in a way that doesn't allow +people to make their own system. + +This is an old slide of Bradley's, which he insisted we include even though +he's shown a slide like this on the main stage at FOSDEM at least once +before, simply to point out that convincing users of a fully GPL'd VCS +(namely, Git) to switch to a forge that locked them into proprietary +services. + +While Preston-Warner was pushed out of GitHub due to an unrelated HR +scandal, his vision, warped morality, and aggressive hatred of copyleft was +baked into GitHub culture. + +In fact, GitHub took great political and advocacy efforts to convince the +FOSS community that copyleft (particularly the Affero GPL) are terrible +license beyond this OSCON keynote of Preston-Warner's. We have seen cases, +BTW, of GitHub employees, proudly sporting their “GitHub employee” +achievement badge right next to their user icon, go into AGPL'd projects that +they aren't even **contributing** to with rants about how the AGPL is a bad +license. + +We've also heard reliable intelligence (confirmed by multiple sources) that +GitHub has an **internal fork of Git itself**. Now, the GPL of course allows +internal forks, since its copyleft requirements (in most cases — there are a +few exceptions) trigger only on distribution. Obviously convincing our own +Git member project to switch to the AGPL is *way beyond* politically viable +and we haven't even asked. But, this situation shows that if GitHub has a +legally viable choice between liberating code on their own accord and +proprietarizing it, they chose proprietarization *every* *single* *time*. + +[ next slide ] +