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Re:Kite is saying farewell, and is open-sourcing all of its ... by esperent on Sunday November 20, 2022 @05:51PM (#33686383)
> Kite thought it can go after the up and coming new developers by doing slightly shady things

I briefly tried Kite a few years ago. I didn't notice anything shady although maybe I just didn't stick around long enough.

What shady tactics are you referring to?

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Re:Kite is saying farewell, and is open-sourcing all of its ... by valenceelectron on Sunday November 20, 2022 @06:31PM (#33686715)
Essentially, they bought the Atom Minimap plugin and added kite-specific code/offers. This blew up a lot in the respective GitHub repo and also on HN.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14857944

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14836653

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Re:Kite is saying farewell, and is open-sourcing all of its ... by ilrwbwrkhv on Sunday November 20, 2022 @09:33PM (#33687994)
> I fell for this. I enabled it because I was curious about trying new development tools, only to find out later it uploaded all of the source code on my computer to their service. What the hell.

An old comment from another user. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14837253

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