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Re:Microsoft sued for open-source piracy through GitHub Copilot by bamboozled on Saturday November 05, 2022 @10:24PM (#33488219)
I feel that deep down inside, Github is dead or will be dead, we just don't yet have anywhere to go...

That's why people talk like that. There's the GitHub the world loved, then there's the Micro$oft version, which we're starting to see problems with.

I think "GitHub" is the old good place, Microsoft Github, is the problematic version we're going to see more of.

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Re:Microsoft sued for open-source piracy through GitHub Copilot by Gigachad on Sunday November 06, 2022 @01:31AM (#33489408)
GitHub was stagnant before and GitLab had basically overtaken it. Since the acquisition they have massively picked up the pace and delivered several exceptionally good features.

GitLab is still a very viable alternative but there is just very little reason to want to leave GitHub. The vast majority of devs either don’t care about or enjoy copilot. It’s just a small number of HN whiners who make most of the noise on the topic.

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Re:Microsoft sued for open-source piracy through GitHub Copilot by number6 on Sunday November 06, 2022 @02:18AM (#33490040)
I think Copilot is very in sync with GPLs Idea of Copyleft and learning form code. Alle projects using Copilot should therefore also be GPL or AGPL
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Re:Microsoft sued for open-source piracy through GitHub Copilot by wizzwizz4 on Sunday November 06, 2022 @05:23AM (#33491085)
It isn't compliant with GPL's attribution requirements. If it were made so, then yeah, I'd agree – with the caveat that it'd also have to be MIT, BSD, Apache etc. compliant.
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Re:Microsoft sued for open-source piracy through GitHub Copilot by wilg on Sunday November 06, 2022 @01:32AM (#33489418)
Everything GitHub has done since Microsoft's acquisition has been great! The product is getting so much better – Copilot is wonderful, Actions are great, issue improvements. More please!
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Re:Microsoft sued for open-source piracy through GitHub Copilot by generic-husky on Sunday November 06, 2022 @04:42AM (#33490822)
Sounds like you might like: https://sourcehut.org (it's also completely free of crypto/web3 schemes, as an added bonus)

If GitHub (M$) continues this path of stomping on licenses/copyright of the people who made it great in the first place (i.e repo authors/contributors), I'm definitely gone.

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