Sourcehut Moving to Europe
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
I would say the same thing for EU to US migrations, to be clear. This is just something that should always be considered reflexively.
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.
More importantly, the comparison you are drawing equates the "American viewpoint" of aiming to maximize profits directly to the goal of aiming to minimize cost to the end consumer. As in: "Yeah, our customers have to pay $30 instead of $20 a year now that we're EU-based, but so what? We're not in it to maximize profits." Excuse me?
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).
wrong. EU law very much exists.