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I'm not sure people need to announce their departure from GitHub. You may not like their use of AI but legally speaking its entirely within their right to updat
by esskay 4y ago
I'm not sure people need to announce their departure from GitHub. You may not like their use of AI but legally speaking its entirely within their right to update their TOS for this. Is it sketchy? Absolutely. But given over the years they've provided billions of dollars of hosting and compute services to the opensource community for free I'm not sure there can be much of an argument that they don't have a right to create a sustainable income source.
They undoubtely should have handled it better, perhaps even offering an option for individual repos to opt out entirely. But if they didn't do it, someone else would have.
- jmclnx 4y ago>I'm not sure people need to announce their departure from GitHub. I think people should if they are leaving for reasons described in the article, or other reasons due to Microsoft. If enough people leave there is a very remote hope Microsoft its ways. FWIW, I have been waiting for that to happen for well over 30 years :)