Are you guys fine with these new shenanigans from Github. I found a bug and wanted to check what has been the development on that, only to find out most of the discussion was hidden by github and requesting me to sign-in to view it.

It threw me straight back to when Microsoft acquired Github and the discussions around the future of opensource on a microsoft owned infrastructure, now microsoft is exploiting free work from the community to train its AI, and building walls around its product, are open source contributors fine with that ?

  • INeedMana@lemmy.world
    1434·
    8 months ago

    Microsoft acquired Github and the discussions around the future of opensource on a microsoft owned infrastructure

    Personally I’m impressed it took them so long to start driving it to the ground

    I moved to Codeberg

    Codeberg is a non-profit, community-led organization that aims to help free and open source projects prosper by giving them a safe and friendly home

    • intrepid@lemmy.ca
      191·
      8 months ago

      Personally I’m impressed it took them so long to start driving it to the ground

      You mean their copyright washing of FOSS projects using copilot wasn’t enough of a warning?

      • INeedMana@lemmy.world
        8·
        8 months ago

        No, that is actually useful. Blocking access for anonymous users is not

        If anything, the boom of LLMs like copilot and chatgpt actually shows the power of open source and open access to information. Underlying algorithms would mean nothing without open source, open access to stackoverflow, forums, etc