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Open source devs consider making hogs pay for every Git pull (www.theregister.com)

submitted 8 months ago by floofloof@lemmy.ca to c/technology@lemmy.world

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Opinion: Careless big-time users are treating FOSS repos like content delivery networks

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[–] SnoringEarthworm@sh.itjust.works 25 points 8 months ago (5 children)

a single company might download the same code hundreds of thousands of times in a day, and the next day, and the next

Why would anyone ever need to do this?

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[–] Maestro@fedia.io 23 points 8 months ago

They don't design a system that does so intentionally. It's equal parts ignorance, automation and cluelessness

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[–] deltaspawn0040@lemmy.zip 12 points 8 months ago*

Laziness? Why designate storage for a downloaded repository when you can just use the blazing fast company network to make someone else's storage your storage? Systemically it's fucked up, but individually it kinda makes sense.

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[–] lepinkainen@lemmy.world 10 points 8 months ago

Shitty CI system

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[–] poke@sh.itjust.works 4 points 8 months ago

Maybe they're building containers every day? Idk. Can't think of how that'd blow up into thousands without some sort of VM or containerization dependency.

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[–] echodot@feddit.uk 2 points 8 months ago

The explanation is earlier in the quote you just copied. They're using it as a CDN

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