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For awhile now I have not wanted to use GitHub because of this tool. Why should anyone write code for Microsoft for free when Microsoft charges for software? P
by Sunspark 4y ago
For awhile now I have not wanted to use GitHub because of this tool. Why should anyone write code for Microsoft for free when Microsoft charges for software?
Perhaps options like GitLab and others should be considered instead.
- jszymborski 4y agoI've certainly been enjoying Codeberg for my personal development.
- cercatrova 4y agoI like Copilot and use it, so I'll be glad to continue using it and it can use my code to help train it. It's a fair exchange in my view.
- mikro2nd 4y agoThat's cool for you. For the rest of us, however, it would be terribly simple for Github to provide a profile/account setting that allows people to opt out -- perhaps on a per-repo level as well as per-account. Yet they don't. I wonder why not.
- scoot 4y agoThere are thousands of open source libraries used legally in thousands of commercial products, so I'm not sure I understand your point.
- hsbauauvhabzb 4y agoUntil someone forks/mirrors your project on GitHub
- Gigachad 4y agoIf you don’t want people to use your code, consider making your repos private.
- xigoi 4y agoWhat if you want people to use your code, but not for proprietary software?
- scarface74 4y ago> Why should anyone write code for Microsoft for free when Microsoft charges for software Do you feel the same way about contribute to the Linux kernel that is used by commercial software companies?