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Open source devs consider making hogs pay for every Git pull (www.theregister.com)
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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.zip/post/59925975

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

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[–] SnoringEarthworm@sh.itjust.works 19 points 14 hours 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?

[–] echodot@feddit.uk 1 points 5 hours ago

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

[–] deltaspawn0040@lemmy.zip 12 points 11 hours ago* (last edited 11 hours 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.

[–] Maestro@fedia.io 18 points 14 hours ago

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

[–] lepinkainen@lemmy.world 10 points 12 hours ago

Shitty CI system

[–] poke@sh.itjust.works 5 points 13 hours 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.