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I don't want to keep fighting zombie bills like these, because we will eventually miss one.
Extend, add repositories which profit from copyleft software which mandates publishing source, but github enables the thieves to hide and exploit the original developers work.
Extinguish, community now works with the thieves and contributes to parasitic repos instead of open source repositories.
Private repositories and paywall repositories are absolutely not open source.
Github must have independent auditors review private repositories and paywall repositories to prevent theft of opensource or be treated as part of the theft itself.
Refusing to deboard and getting injured isn't a smart idea in the real world.
Imagine this was any other industry. You can't rent your apartment complex to more people than can fit and have the police shoot their dog and flash bang their kids when they refuse to sleep under a bridge that night because occupancy rates are higher than you thought and you needed to evict them.
Other times to quit:
When risk of failure is a career stain, and success does not mean promotions and pay raises.
When the project is almost out of funding.
When the manager doesn't value your contribution.
When it harms humanity.
When a better project comes along.
When you put your health, family, or quality of life at risk.
When it interferes with posting on HN.
PostCovid, no, occasionally I'll go out to a meal by myself, but lots of places closed or are empty.
Install
1. GCompris
2. Gimp, Inkscape
3. Rosegarden
4. https://github.com/commanderx16/x16-emulator/
Don't install a bunch of games.
Unfortunately right to repair allows competitors including patent ignorers to duplicate, deceive, and dilute. Look at wireless earbuds in a rechargable jellybean case, anyone remember the first company to build them? You can find a hundred knockoffs.
Right to repair is great for consumers and businesses will need to be more ruthless and secret to survive.