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> This policy was adapted from uv's AI policy. Wasn't uv bought by an AI company?

neuronexmachina 5mo ago
Was curious and astral put up their AI policy a couple weeks before the acquisition. Of course, it's quite possible they already knew it was happening: https://github.com/astral-sh/.github/pull/1 https://github.com/astral-sh/.github/pull/1 That said, I'm kind of surprised ripgrep hasn't been acquired by anyone, considering all the major AI agents use it pretty heavily.
- nextaccountic 5mo ago
  well, ripgrep is not a company.. what means to "buy" an open source project? companies either "fund" open source developers (usually a pittance), "contribute" code, or if all fails "fork" them, but straight buying, that's something I never see
  - rurban 5mo ago
    This is when a company buys the sole developer.
    - rcxdude 4mo ago
      You don't generally buy people. You can employ them, though.
      - rurban 4mo ago
        In slave states without proper civil rights, like the US, you can buy them. Your contract forbids everything. Eg every SW you produce in private belongs to the company, not to you. Or everything you say in private will affect your contract.
        celdon25 4mo ago
        Well, the background checks in the US at least have to follow laws. Then theres reference checks, less formal but generally still follow some kind of rigor or process and you generally know who they’re going to talk to. Then there’s the third type of investigation, where they actually don’t tell you they’re doing it, may or may not admit to doing it, and you have no way of knowing whether you were singled out for some reason, assuming you are able to find out it happened in the first place. And good luck searching for any recourse if ethics or even laws (such as HIPAA) are ignored in that situation, even if it’s for example a b2c healthcare company that is expected to set an example for health privacy standards, rather than calling everyone you knew to probe their memories of how healthy you appeared to be at the time, then using that information to evaluate your performance with different criteria than other employees. Sure, it’s not a typical scenario, but if it happens to you, you’ll probably never be able to scoff at a comment like this again. You might never get over it.
nextaccountic 5mo ago
burntsushi also works in this company (or worked?). he is actually a developer of uv (or was a couple years ago?) https://github.com/astral-sh/uv/graphs/contributors?from=9%2F24%2F2023&to=5%2F23%2F2026 https://github.com/astral-sh/uv/graphs/contributors?from=9%2...

Was curious and astral put up their AI policy a couple weeks before the acquisition. Of course, it's quite possible they already knew it was happening: https://github.com/astral-sh/.github/pull/1 https://github.com/astral-sh/.github/pull/1 That said, I'm kind of surprised ripgrep hasn't been acquired by anyone, considering all the major AI agents use it pretty heavily.

nextaccountic 5mo ago
well, ripgrep is not a company.. what means to "buy" an open source project? companies either "fund" open source developers (usually a pittance), "contribute" code, or if all fails "fork" them, but straight buying, that's something I never see
- rurban 5mo ago
  This is when a company buys the sole developer.
  - rcxdude 4mo ago
    You don't generally buy people. You can employ them, though.
    - rurban 4mo ago
      In slave states without proper civil rights, like the US, you can buy them. Your contract forbids everything. Eg every SW you produce in private belongs to the company, not to you. Or everything you say in private will affect your contract.
      - celdon25 4mo ago
        Well, the background checks in the US at least have to follow laws. Then theres reference checks, less formal but generally still follow some kind of rigor or process and you generally know who they’re going to talk to. Then there’s the third type of investigation, where they actually don’t tell you they’re doing it, may or may not admit to doing it, and you have no way of knowing whether you were singled out for some reason, assuming you are able to find out it happened in the first place. And good luck searching for any recourse if ethics or even laws (such as HIPAA) are ignored in that situation, even if it’s for example a b2c healthcare company that is expected to set an example for health privacy standards, rather than calling everyone you knew to probe their memories of how healthy you appeared to be at the time, then using that information to evaluate your performance with different criteria than other employees. Sure, it’s not a typical scenario, but if it happens to you, you’ll probably never be able to scoff at a comment like this again. You might never get over it.

nextaccountic 5mo ago

burntsushi also works in this company (or worked?). he is actually a developer of uv (or was a couple years ago?) https://github.com/astral-sh/uv/graphs/contributors?from=9%2F24%2F2023&to=5%2F23%2F2026 https://github.com/astral-sh/uv/graphs/contributors?from=9%2...