Open-Source-Entwickler erwägen, für jeden Git-Pull Schweine bezahlen zu lassen
https://www.theregister.com/2026/02/28/open_source_opinion/
Open-Source-Entwickler erwägen, für jeden Git-Pull Schweine bezahlen zu lassen
https://www.theregister.com/2026/02/28/open_source_opinion/
8 Kommentare
It boils my piss how companies are willing to take, take, take and **never** give back to the communities they critically depend on.
Then they get all outraged when licensing (or something) is changed to get them to pay up, as if they’ve somehow been terribly wronged.
They’d be even more outraged if that software just up and vanished, their business would collapse. How they don’t see that ensuring it’s survival should be part of their continuity planning is baffling.
I am but a simple, um, simpleton. But what the fuck happened to *caching*?
Good, more companies need to give back to open source, and there’s many ways set up to do so. It’s just that a lot of them don’t care, and it doesn’t provide any good PR.
The entire internet is built on good people that do their 9-5, and go home and end up having to work a second job for free, reviewing code, issues, and reading comments from people who are ungrateful.
While I agree with the concept, I wonder how one could practically implement a payment system based on „user size“, especially given that many of these IPs are shared between users/companies. How do you serve an invoice to an IP address? How do you add an authentication/payment layer in front of a fully open repository such that `git pull` blocks when a certain rate is exceeded?
Here’s hoping that a practical solution can be found
That would only harm consumers, companies would just build a local store, and it’s worth considering just for source scanning.
People are so lazy they dont sync to their own reposities?
I don’t understand why they are accessing the same repo thousands of times a day. What is it in their implementation that makes it so?
Maybe resurrect something like gittorrent p2p git or git on ipfs and require its use. First party support in the official git binaries would help.