Transifex has moved to a closed-source model

[Tomaz Canabrava]

Em 04/07/2014 07:13, "Lubomir I. Ivanov" <neolit123 at gmail.com> escreveu:
>
> On 4 July 2014 11:18, Pierre-Yves Chibon <pingou at pingoured.fr> wrote:
> > Good morning,
> >
> > I have learned the sad news yesterday, but it seems that transifex has
moved to
> > a closed source model.
> > It was "announced"/discussed there:
> > https://github.com/transifex/transifex/issues/206#issuecomment-15243207
> >
> > The question becomes then, do we want to reconsider its use?
> > The follow-up question being, where to move?
> >
> > If I would reply positively to the first question, I do not have any
answers for
> > the second one.
> >
>
> as far as i understood the implications on a quick read and since
> their desired model is the current github model as a comparison, why
> move from a closed source online service which provides free of charge
> project hosting, given there are no license clashes - i.e. subsurface
> will still remain GPL compliant?
>
> if subsurface applies a new ideology in the lines of "we will not use
> a closed source online service", then subsurface should stop using
> github as well.
>
> "The decision was engineering-driven, not business-driven"
> if the above is true and unless they suddenly add some limitations for
> a free project after the change, such as 10 max languages i don't see
> the need to switch services.

Me neither, we need to remember that opensource and free software doesn't
means that people shouldn't get money from it, as people have to eat.
Subsurface is not the main job of anyone here, but for the transifex people
it is.

> 2c
> lubomir
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