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> I certainly will not publish any of my software open source, despite how much I would like to (under GPL) in order to help fellow developers. I think this is
by xinayder 2y ago
> I certainly will not publish any of my software open source, despite how much I would like to (under GPL) in order to help fellow developers.
I think this is a rather radical approach. You're undermining the OSS movement because you dislike Microsoft (I do too). I think adding a clause or dual licensing your work is more effective at stopping big-tech funded AI crawlers than just not adhering to open source.
You can host your code on sourcehut or Codeberg (Forgejo), you don't NEED to host it on a Microsoft owned platform.
- lumb63 2y agoThere is, as far as I am aware, nothing to stop Microsoft from crawling any other site’s code. Please correct me if I’m wrong. Things like “copyright” didn’t seem to stop OpenAI.
- elzbardico 2y agoI love the OSS movement. But the OSS movement is dependent on developers making a living somewhere else. If Microsoft effectively replace our class or at least a big part of it with AI, OSS becomes mostly irrelevant. Not everyone is multi-generationally rich or absurdly frugal. Most people like having good jobs.