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Codeberg is a hosted gitea for open source only. The advantages are: - Hosted in Europe and held to EU privacy laws - Does not require consenting to copilot t

by Macha 4y ago

Codeberg is a hosted gitea for open source only. The advantages are: - Hosted in Europe and held to EU privacy laws - Does not require consenting to copilot training on your code - Maintained by a non-profit so immune from the "We need to make money so we're going proprietary" trend - Faster than Gitlab.com The disadvantages are: - Open source only. This isn't for your private proprietary projects, they do allow "some exceptions" but this is for things like the terraform config for your project website when the rest of the project is on codeberg anyway, rather than open core or "I have my open and closed projects in the one place"

vanderZwan 4y ago
> Maintained by a non-profit so immune from the "We need to make money so we're going proprietary" trend In principle you are right, but there are regulatory capture scenarios that can undermine that so it is still important to keep paying attention. Speaking as someone who is still baffled by how Mozilla fired I-don't-know-how-many people while still paying the top board members millions a year. Non-profits are still better than any other currently existing legal construction I can think of though
- mariusor 4y ago
  Are you by any chance making a confusion between the Mozilla Corporation and the Mozilla Foundation? The former is the for profit organization that pays most of the developers of the browser and adjacent projects. The foundation is largely meaningless at this point (in my opinion) and serves little purpose outside of providing a good PR talking point.
  - vanderZwan 4y ago
    If I am then that is only by their own design of splitting these things, don't blame me for that.
shafyy 4y ago
> Hosted in Europe and held to EU privacy laws Not only hosted in EU, but also by a EU legal entity. This is an important distinction under GDPR.
Narishma 4y ago
> - Does not require consenting to copilot training on your code What's to stop Microsoft from training it on code outside of Github?

by Macha 4y ago

vanderZwan 4y ago

> Maintained by a non-profit so immune from the "We need to make money so we're going proprietary" trend In principle you are right, but there are regulatory capture scenarios that can undermine that so it is still important to keep paying attention. Speaking as someone who is still baffled by how Mozilla fired I-don't-know-how-many people while still paying the top board members millions a year. Non-profits are still better than any other currently existing legal construction I can think of though

mariusor 4y ago
Are you by any chance making a confusion between the Mozilla Corporation and the Mozilla Foundation? The former is the for profit organization that pays most of the developers of the browser and adjacent projects. The foundation is largely meaningless at this point (in my opinion) and serves little purpose outside of providing a good PR talking point.
- vanderZwan 4y ago
  If I am then that is only by their own design of splitting these things, don't blame me for that.

shafyy 4y ago

> Hosted in Europe and held to EU privacy laws Not only hosted in EU, but also by a EU legal entity. This is an important distinction under GDPR.

Narishma 4y ago

> - Does not require consenting to copilot training on your code What's to stop Microsoft from training it on code outside of Github?