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Open source devs consider making hogs pay for every Git pull (www.theregister.com)
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Opinion: Careless big-time users are treating FOSS repos like content delivery networks

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[–] 29 points 8 months ago* (3 children)

Charging is a good idea.

In any case it would not be crazy to rate-limit. If you’re downloading the same 10,000 components a million times, you deserve to be limited.

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  • [–] 15 points 8 months ago (1 child)

    The article discusses that IP-based limiting doesn't work as well as it used to. Because of NATs, proxies, etc., IP addresses are a lot more ephemeral and flexible, so they've seen the same big perpetrators adapt and change IPs when rate-limited. I expect we will start to see support for anonymous downloads go away in the next several months in many major OSS registries.

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  • [–] 7 points 8 months ago

    Thank you!

    I actually wondered if the article mentioned that and I just missed it. I went back to check and apparently missed it twice.

    I’m genuinely surprised they’ve been able to handle the traffic for this long. The numbers are staggering!

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