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I find this entirely ridiculous. Just as a heuristic, the first complaint is about CoPilot. I don't use CoPilot. If that's the #1 complaint the rest is peanuts.
by gernb 4y ago
I find this entirely ridiculous. Just as a heuristic, the first complaint is about CoPilot. I don't use CoPilot. If that's the #1 complaint the rest is peanuts.
As for Github being proprietary, I don't get the issue. My supermarket is not open source. Should I ban it? To me, they are offering free services to support open source. Services that cost money. It costs money to store the data, to serve the data, to run the servers. It costs money to process github actions, to fight spam. to moderate disputes, etc...
Where is the lock in? Every piece of data related to your projects are available for you to access. Issues, Wikis, etc..
Even github actions, the runner is here and open source
https://github.com/actions/runner https://github.com/actions/runner
There's no lock in. There's a company offering a free service to open source developers and hoping that you'll pay for anything not open source.
I don't see the issue any more than the fact that my grocery store is not some kind of collective.
- the_gipsy 4y ago> I don't use CoPilot. If that's the #1 complaint the rest is peanuts. CoPilot launders your code, it doesn't matter whether you use it or not.
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- Arnt 4y agoGoogle and Stack Overflow launder your code, too. People can and do search for something that uses ScheduledExecutorService, find some code that uses it on github and copy the incantation used by the code, in much the same way as copilot does. Bug or feature? Open source is a gift, IMO.
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- the_gipsy 4y agoWrong, SO or github code is not public domain, you must respect copyright and licenses. Copilot mashes existing licensed code into a ML model, and presents it under its own (shady) new copyright and license - hence, code laundering.