Comment by RicoElectrico
4 days ago
The question is why Codeberg needs to be stationed in Germany known for its goofy laws at every corner.
4 days ago
The question is why Codeberg needs to be stationed in Germany known for its goofy laws at every corner.
Germany may have goofy laws but a very stable and predictable political environment. That is why there is a long and rich history here - KDE e.V, the ones who run the same-name Linux desktop, SuSE, The Document Foundation (LibreOffice), FSF's European branch, CCC, Open Knowledge Foundation, Open Search Foundation... and that's just the most prominent ones.
In general, these rules have been known for a very long time, boiled down it is "don't be a dick and don't allow others to use your property to be a dick" in law. Of course, for Americans who are used to acting like dicks with impunity towards each other and everyone else, this being coded in law is anathema.
In Germany you can't leave a 3 star review saying "it's just ok" for a restaurant because the owner can sue Google for defamation so Google just removes your review[0].
"Politicians send SWAT teams to the homes of people, famously in the case of Andy Grote, where someone replied "you're such a dick" to one of Grote's tweets. Grote reported this to the police, the attorney general figured out who the poster was, and sent a SWAT team (6 police officers!) to confiscate all their electronic devices. This is not an isolated case; this happens frequently."
Nah mate, Germans are famously thin skinned and have built an authoritarian state to protect their feelings.
[0]: https://x.com/eigen_moomin/status/2077471686295957749
That is, indeed, stable and predictable.
It's because a lot of free software people are in Germany. Nothing more, nothing less. This may be related to the policy of teaching everyone fluent English as a second language since elementary school, or to the old school Chaos Computer Club.
Because it's run by German people living in Germany? Feel free to move to Anguilla and start an Anguillan one following Anguillan laws.