On Sun, 25 Jul 2021 19:48:03 -0400 Gene Heskett <ghesk...@shentel.net> wrote:
> On Sunday 25 July 2021 15:36:26 to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > > > On Sun, Jul 25, 2021 at 07:43:10PM +0100, Brian wrote: > > > On Sun 25 Jul 2021 at 09:34:42 +0200, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > > > > On Sat, Jul 24, 2021 at 04:27:23PM -0400, Jim Popovitch wrote: > > > > > Why isn't this on Salsa instead of a Microsoft site? > > > > > > > > ...you're right. I won't touch github unless I'm forced to :-( > > > > > > I went to > > > > > > https://github.com/alexpevzner/sane-airscan > > > > > > and found it full of very useful information. You will explain why > > > Microsoft's involvement in the site should make me wary of advising > > > users to go there? > > > > It is subtle, and you might disagree. > > > > I always wondered why github was worth 7.5 billion to Microsoft [1]. > > Surely it seemed a bit steep for "just" generating good will in the > > "open source" (as they choose to call it) community? > > > > Of course, github succeeded in one thing: they managed to centralise > > git, which is inherently decentral. Many people these days see github > > as a synonym to git and can't bother to use git without github's > > shiny web interface. > > > > This was, even before the acquisition, enough reason for me to keep > > as much distance as possible between github and myself. > > > > But still, 7.5B? > > > > Now, with github copilot [2], things start making sense: github users > > get support from an AI (GPT-3) for which Microsoft has an exclusive > > license (only the service is available for mere mortals). > > > > They now have a strategic position on how code is written "out there", > > at least, they hope to have it. > > > > Personally, I very much dislike the situation. It very much reminds > > me of "The Evitable Conflict" [3] from Isaac Asimov, with the little > > wart that Microsoft isn't bound by the Three Laws of Robotics, but > > just by their shareholder value :-) > > > > Cheers > > > > [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Github#Acquisition_by_Microsoft > > [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GitHub_Copilot > > [3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Evitable_Conflict > > > > - t > > +100 Tomas, as it gives them free access to "borrow" some of the best > code out there. So the comparison to the underhanded compuserve and Anyone can "borrow" open source code, regardless of where it's hosted, pretty much by definition. Celejar
