i want my bounty!

Rikki Cattermole via Digitalmars-d digitalmars-d at puremagic.com
Tue Dec 16 00:20:39 PST 2014


On 16/12/2014 9:01 p.m., ketmar via Digitalmars-d wrote:
> On Tue, 16 Dec 2014 13:24:34 +1300
> Rikki Cattermole via Digitalmars-d <digitalmars-d at puremagic.com> wrote:
>
>> On 16/12/2014 8:30 a.m., ketmar via Digitalmars-d wrote:
>>> so as you can see this is not about GPL or something. this is about
>>> attitude which i don't like. maybe i'm overreacting, but i'm very
>>> stubborn person sometimes. simple registration on github gives 'em +1
>>> user. not that they care about that one user, but *i* care about github
>>> not getting that user.
>>
>> Just one thought, as long as you are not paying Github any money, by
>> using their service you are costing them money. Maybe not much but still.
>>
>> So is it more important for +1 user or is it more important to waste
>> their money to you? And while you are at it participate in the D
>> communities repos in turn causing Github to loose more money.
>
> in no way. guthub is not a charity organisation, and they will not do
> the things that aren't profitable. they spent 10 dollars to keep 100
> repos working, they got 100 dollars from paying customer. win. where
> did they get that customer from? one of the "free users" told his boss
> about github and boss decided that it's easier to pay github than to
> keep internal infrastructure.
>
> strictly speaking, the most valuable thing githab has is their "free
> users". the more people using github the better. so i can't understand
> why people think that "kind people at github spending money to give us
> free service". they spending money to get more money, no charity here.

Yes but in this case this is mute. You will talk about Github 
negatively. You having an account won't cause you to talk positively 
about it.


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