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  • Or it could just be laziness.

    In case you don’t want to put the effort into making a system into your organisation, to update code in a public-facing versioning system hosted setup, just tell someone to zip whatever you compiled and package it along with the rest of the stuff.

    • Packaging the whole .git directory would make it significantly larger
    • This method is bankruptcy-safe, as compared to hosting on the internet.
      • Ideally, I would like there to be both, a zip (in case I don’t have an internet atm) and a link to the vcs
    • Yes, the companies mostly don’t care enough and people doing it won’t think of it as being hostile, just as putting the least effort.


  • simply zip up their code and send it to the AGPL’ed software owner

    That seems good enough to me. No?

    Sure, it would be nice to have the whole versioning system history, but even having the current version of the code makes it possible to do a code review. And modification too.

    Self-Building and deployment might turn out to be harder, but that would just be about which side is having to put the effort of making something comprehensive.









  • You’re right, but at the same time.

    Let’s say a website has an issue and was one time faulty. Clients lost money. Then the site owner is notified of the fault by multiple clients. The site owner uses some words to placate them and goes on with their day.

    The site owner then makes some changes to the site, meaning they did have the time and money to pay a developer to update the site, but decides to keep the previous bug in, as a feature, implemented in a different way, this time better at stealing their money.


    Sure, the obvious solution is to use another site (the laundromat down the road).


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