Lol no it wouldn’t.
The guy doesn’t want to commit resources to fight this, since it’s a hobby project and this sucked away his motivation to continue.
Unless y’all give him enough money to mount a legal defense, no amount of fancy tech will help.
While not exactly this situation, it has similar vibes to this:
https://xkcd.com/538/
I think he only means in a literal sense. If the thing is copied a ton of times to several repositories, it becomes harder to expunge it entirely. Legal battles notwithstanding.
Isn’t Git kind of naturally federated in a broad sense, just by the way it works? As long as someone has the source code they can always create another Git repo and share it.
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Lol no it wouldn’t. The guy doesn’t want to commit resources to fight this, since it’s a hobby project and this sucked away his motivation to continue.
Unless y’all give him enough money to mount a legal defense, no amount of fancy tech will help.
While not exactly this situation, it has similar vibes to this: https://xkcd.com/538/
Oh god.
Federation is going to become the next blockchain thing that people have no idea what it does but insist it’ll fix everything, isnt it?
it already is.
Except the use case it was designed for is actually used…
I think he only means in a literal sense. If the thing is copied a ton of times to several repositories, it becomes harder to expunge it entirely. Legal battles notwithstanding.
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Isn’t Git kind of naturally federated in a broad sense, just by the way it works? As long as someone has the source code they can always create another Git repo and share it.
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Oh okay, how cool. You have piqued my interest, I will check out Gitea for now for sure. Thanks for the explanation.
Kids these days…
Linus Torvalds rather famously managed Linux patches for decades without a centralized server.
https://git-scm.com/docs/git-send-email
Absolutely false.
Only if anonymous. Eventually they’d get a court to order their domain be cancelled and they’d be offline anyway.
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Whack a mole I guess. Are we back to playing with Napster?