Sourcehut Moving to Europe

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44375655

by wooptoo • 1 year ago

81 14 1 year ago

news.ycombinator.com

Just received this:

Hello!

I'm writing to let you know that, as part of our work to move our business operations from the United States to Europe, we are rolling out changes to our terms of service and privacy policy. As promised, we are giving you two weeks notice and a chance to participate in the discussion about the proposed changes.

You can review the diff of the proposed changes on the sr.ht-dev mailing list:

https://lists.sr.ht/~sircmpwn/sr.ht-dev/patches/60282

The changes will take effect from July 10th, provided that there are no further revisions based on user feedback. Further changes will be discussed on sr.ht-dev rather than emailed to you directly.

If you have questions or comments, you can participate in this thread, or you can reply to this email to reach support directly.

-- Drew DeVault SourceHut

lionkor• 1 year ago

Honestly a good idea. I don't see a single negative that can come from this, plus they are going to be more immune from unchecked governments

hiAndrewQuinn3• 1 year ago

Well, the obvious negative one should always consider is whether the consumer needs to pay more. A nonzero number of employee hours were spent on this migration and we should expect to see that reflected in the accounting somewhere.

I would say the same thing for EU to US migrations, to be clear. This is just something that should always be considered reflexively.

palata• 1 year ago

On the other hand, people in Europe are more and more trying to find alternatives to US services. Whereas people looking into SourceHut from the US would probably to it because they want an alternative to TooBigTech (not necessarily a US alternative? Not sure).

diggan3• 1 year ago

one should always consider is whether the consumer needs to pay more

That makes sense in the traditional/American viewpoint of aiming to maximize profits, or however it goes.

But Sourcehut seems to take a different viewpoint than that, with a big focus on 100% FOSS, then Europe obviously makes much more sense than the US, even if there is a non-zero amount of hours involved with the migration. And with the FOSS perspective, the move vice-versa wouldn't make much sense at all.

ls-a• 1 year ago

What if Europe changes its mind?

diggan3• 1 year ago

"Europe" is as likely to change its mind about anything as "North America" is about changing its mind about anything.

tgv• 1 year ago

Then everyone is in for a bad time. But a minor chance for a future negative outcome cannot outweigh a much larger chance for the same outcome right now, can it?

oaiey2• 1 year ago

More interesting: Which European country they are located.

Europe does not enforce law. The local state create laws, Europe is only creating guidelines which are implemented into national law. There is a European court however, who can overturn national laws (or at least fine the nations into submission).

phoe-krk• 1 year ago

Dupe: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44365246

Sourcehut Moving to Europe

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