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 ?

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[–] INeedMana@lemmy.world 136 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

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 18 points 7 months ago (1 children)

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 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 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