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GitHub Copilot for Business is now available

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Re: GitHub Copilot for Business is now available

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Post by danuker »

JoshTriplett wrote: post #5

Sadly, "simple license management" here just refers to "who in your organization has a license to use this tool", rather than "where did this code come from and what license is it under". This tool remains the equivalent of money laundering for violation of Open Source licenses (or software licenses in general).

Indeed, that is why I don't use it either.

Double-checking whether the generated part is a verbatim copy negates the speed advantage.

Possible infringements from similarity are even harder to search.

Re: GitHub Copilot for Business is now available

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Post by cloudking »

aunch wrote: post #7

if you want an actual enterprise solution with in-customer-tenant/on-prem hosting, check out Codeium ( https://www.codeium.com/enterprise ) disclaimer: i'm from the Codeium team. but really, we will even ship you a physical box if that level of data security is important to you

What model do you use? CodeGen?

Re: GitHub Copilot for Business is now available

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Post by Spooky23 »

breckenedge wrote: post #2

An extra $9/mo for: * Simple license management * Organization-wide policy management * Industry-leading private * Corporate proxy support Wow. Who’s going to pay a 90% premium for these features? Edit: OK seems like different marketing pages have different features. The list above comes from https://github.com/features/copilot/ . Still seems like a very steep increase over the base. And I cannot believe there are on…

If you want to make a conversation awkward, ask your account team about the indemnification for the AI’s potential copyright violations.

Re: GitHub Copilot for Business is now available

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Post by Aeolun »

breckenedge wrote: post #2

An extra $9/mo for: * Simple license management * Organization-wide policy management * Industry-leading private * Corporate proxy support Wow. Who’s going to pay a 90% premium for these features? Edit: OK seems like different marketing pages have different features. The list above comes from https://github.com/features/copilot/ . Still seems like a very steep increase over the base. And I cannot believe there are on…

The price difference is mostly irrelevant to large corporations. The just need that license management.

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Post by BaculumMeumEst »

aunch wrote: post #7

if you want an actual enterprise solution with in-customer-tenant/on-prem hosting, check out Codeium ( https://www.codeium.com/enterprise ) disclaimer: i'm from the Codeium team. but really, we will even ship you a physical box if that level of data security is important to you

you’re going to need to ship that emacs extension if you want to keep advertising on HN :-)

Re: GitHub Copilot for Business is now available

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Post by paxys »

tccole wrote: post #8
breckenedge wrote: post #2

An extra $9/mo for: * Simple license management * Organization-wide policy management * Industry-leading private * Corporate proxy support Wow. Who’s going to pay a 90% premium for these features? Edit: OK seems like different marketing pages have different features. The list above comes from https://github.com/features/copilot/ . Still seems like a very steep increase over the base. And I cannot believe there are on…

9 bucks per developer isn’t that much. I getting a developer to be 5 percent faster is a huge gain for just 9 dollars.

Sure, but the harder part is measuring whether the developer is actually 5% faster. Otherwise you can make the same case for every $10/mo subscription service in the world, and so we should all be operating at infinite efficiency.

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Post by unxdfa »

JoshTriplett wrote: post #5

Sadly, "simple license management" here just refers to "who in your organization has a license to use this tool", rather than "where did this code come from and what license is it under". This tool remains the equivalent of money laundering for violation of Open Source licenses (or software licenses in general).

Yeah we were told not to use it by the lawyers at work and have an official policy against using it. Not having that would open us up for liability if we’re sued as there’s no defence that what we did was clean room if we admitted using it.

We’ll hang back until other companies have litigated their way to some legislation around it.

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Post by aleph_minus_one »

paxys wrote: post #16
tccole wrote: post #8

Earlier quoted context omitted.

9 bucks per developer isn’t that much. I getting a developer to be 5 percent faster is a huge gain for just 9 dollars.

Sure, but the harder part is measuring whether the developer is actually 5% faster. Otherwise you can make the same case for every $10/mo subscription service in the world, and so we should all be operating at infinite efficiency.

> Sure, but the harder part is measuring whether the developer is actually 5% faster. Otherwise you can make the same case for every $10/mo subscription service in the world, and so we should all be operating at infinite efficiency.

After n such iterations, the developer gets 100*(1-0.95^n)% faster. So, after some such $10/month purchases, the developer gets so fast that buying another improvement yields diminishing returns.

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