Re: [libreplanet-discuss] GNU ethical repository criteria: Should privacy issues really be extra credit?

[Neils Nesse]

> On 19/11/15 02:19, Niels Nesse wrote:
> > I recently came upon the GNU ethical repository criteria:
> > https://www.gnu.org/software/repo-criteria.html
> >
> > I am very pleased to see the FSF take up this issue. There has been
> > far to much apathy on the part of developers regarding the ethics
> > of hosts.
>
> I'm not sure that talking about apathy alone demonstrates a real
> understanding of the problem.
>
> Whenever developers do try to host anything ourselves (whether it is
> email, Git, a blog or a bug tracker) it starts to take away valuable
> time and a lot of energy.  Just because we can get an Apache package
> from a GNU/Linux distribution doesn't mean that it is the end of the
> story.

I appreciate these points but I wasn't really trying to make a point 
about self-hosting. In the recent past I was a part of a discussion on 
IRC about where a particular project ought to be hosted. I found that if 
one desirable feature would be lost by choosing a more user respecting 
host that option would fail to get traction. I like idea of ethical 
repository criteria at the very least as a communication tool that might 
help some of these discussions take a turn from the status quo.