Yeah, but the concept of "offset" implies that there is something essentially poisonous to counteract. You may have to continue doing some of these poisonous activities...but you're acknowledging that the consequences of them are negative, period.
"Offsets" may not be literally a boycott, but the message is the same. And if at all possible, the organizers of such should avoid creating more "poison" to "offset"...in this case, if you wanted to put your name as a pledge, you had to have a Github account, and you had to use Github's services...which, in the end, helps to perpetuate Github.
But the kicker is that using Github as a necessary evil is not necessary at all, thanks to the great work of open-source developers...
(and yes, the question of, what the hell does "offseting" Github's culture even mean is a whole separate mind-dislocation, but not worth debating in this thread)
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Yeah, but the concept of "offset" implies that there is something essentially poisonous to counteract. You may have to continue doing some of these poisonous activities...but you're acknowledging that the consequences of them are negative, period.
"Offsets" may not be literally a boycott, but the message is the same. And if at all possible, the organizers of such should avoid creating more "poison" to "offset"...in this case, if you wanted to put your name as a pledge, you had to have a Github account, and you had to use Github's services...which, in the end, helps to perpetuate Github.
But the kicker is that using Github as a necessary evil is not necessary at all, thanks to the great work of open-source developers...
(and yes, the question of, what the hell does "offseting" Github's culture even mean is a whole separate mind-dislocation, but not worth debating in this thread)