Fig (YC S20) – Adds IDE-style autocomplete to your existing terminal

Re:Fig (YC S20) – Adds IDE-style autocomplete to your existi... by neya on Sunday May 01, 2022 @06:56AM (#31223921)

I may sound stupid, but I didn't even realize it was proprietary until it started asking me questions about data collection and too much bombarding on feedback collection. "Why did you uninstall fig". Your comment nailed it and I immediately uninstalled it. This is just to show that even experienced developers like us could be easily misled by companies almost looking like an open source initiative.

No offence to the founders - but I am not going to trust access to my entire filesystem by a proprietary software just based off some projected goodwill + marketing.

Thank you.

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Re:Fig (YC S20) – Adds IDE-style autocomplete to your existi... by ushakov on Sunday May 01, 2022 @07:01AM (#31223951)

they’re only using open-source for their advantage without giving back

Fig completions are made by a group of unpaid volunteers and are incompatible with any other completion system

Fig pretends to be developing the product collectively in the open, but don’t give any code back to the community

of course they’d welcome everyone who wants to be an unpaid volunteer and improve their product in their own time without any expectation of a return

https://github.com/withfig/fig/issues/35

is it morally correct to exploit your contributors trust like that?

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Re:Fig (YC S20) – Adds IDE-style autocomplete to your existi... by OrwellianTimes on Sunday May 01, 2022 @07:00AM (#31223942)

did the same too.

screw you fig, thank you for enlightening me.

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