GitHub scraped your code. And they plan to charge you
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Re: GitHub scraped your code. And they plan to charge you
#2Nothing is free people! ... People are outraged by GitHub but nobody is going after Facebook or Google for training their AIs on your personal data. Facebook used your face to train some algos, google your personal emails etc.
Re: GitHub scraped your code. And they plan to charge you
#3If you open-sourced code and allowed it to be used for commercial purposes, I don't see the point of being pissy about Github using it, I'm saying this as someone who's written quite a lot of MIT code.
(And charging for a product which adds value to your developer experience and needs money to be run is not a bad thing)
Re: GitHub scraped your code. And they plan to charge you
#4Nothing is free people! ... People are outraged by GitHub but nobody is going after Facebook or Google for training their AIs on your personal data. Facebook used your face to train some algos, google your personal emails etc.
I mean.. I am? I care much more about Google or Facebook profiling and profiting off of my data (especially when I don’t consent to giving it to them in any meaningful way) than I do letting GitHub do things with code I knew was freely available and that other entities could use in profitable ways.
Re: GitHub scraped your code. And they plan to charge you
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Re: GitHub scraped your code. And they plan to charge you
#6If you open-sourced code and allowed it to be used for commercial purposes, I don't see the point of being pissy about Github using it, I'm saying this as someone who's written quite a lot of MIT code. (And charging for a product which adds value to your developer experience and needs money to be run is not a bad thing)
If you write MIT code you expect them not to strip your license out in derivative works. This is exactly what license are for and GitHub is blatantly violating it while people applaud.
Re: GitHub scraped your code. And they plan to charge you
#7If you open-sourced code and allowed it to be used for commercial purposes, I don't see the point of being pissy about Github using it, I'm saying this as someone who's written quite a lot of MIT code. (And charging for a product which adds value to your developer experience and needs money to be run is not a bad thing)
“Free and open source, assuming I approve of the usage” is a common sentiment among people who paste Apache or MIT and don’t think about the ramifications. It’s increasingly common.
I think this situation is slightly more complex but that sentiment is at the heart of a lot of pushback against things like this.
Re: GitHub scraped your code. And they plan to charge you
#8If you open-sourced code and allowed it to be used for commercial purposes, I don't see the point of being pissy about Github using it, I'm saying this as someone who's written quite a lot of MIT code. (And charging for a product which adds value to your developer experience and needs money to be run is not a bad thing)
MIT licensed code must still be distributed with a copy of the license.
Re: GitHub scraped your code. And they plan to charge you
#9Nothing is free people! ... People are outraged by GitHub but nobody is going after Facebook or Google for training their AIs on your personal data. Facebook used your face to train some algos, google your personal emails etc.
> People are outraged by GitHub but nobody is going after Facebook or Google for training their AIs on your personal data.
...what?
Re: GitHub scraped your code. And they plan to charge you
#10Well, for the most part my code isn't going to do anyone a ton of good. I don't use much in the way of popular frameworks, but I also guess this means I'm gonna be out of a job for not writing "normal" enough code at some point.
Time to move on to the carbon age I suppose.