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And yet most people keep trusting them with their code on Github. If people were smart, there would be Freenode-level mass migration away from GH the day the Microsoft purchase was confirmed. But no, everybody will only scream once Microsoft does something shady, as they inevitably will.

>>pferde+(OP)
> And yet most people keep trusting them with their code on Github.

Honestly, from what I've seen many people don't see the issue with this. "The code is public anyway, so what difference does it make?"

I'm starting to see the downsides of that viewpoint now, though[0]. If GitHub, and by extension Microsoft, technically 'own' the code (licensing, etc.) then they have free reign over it, leading to things like Copilot and Intellicode.

[0]: https://github.com/MicrosoftDocs/intellicode/issues/201

>>tentac+Va
Sourceforge was also great in the beginning but slowly rotted from one bad monetization idea after another. I hope github doesn't go that way but I'm not optimistic.

>>tentac+Va
If the code was public on another site, I don't think that would've made a difference in accessibility to the AI