Everyone knows the tale of Brand X getting bought out by some faceless global conglomerate and going to shit, but does the opposite ever happen?

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    1 year ago

    GitHub started adding new good features after being acquired by Microsoft

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      1 year ago

      didn’t they like… scrape everyone’s open source code for an ai and then gatekeep that shit to their own infra?

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      Mixed feelings on this one; I think the jury is still out. I think I preferred GitHub being independent and focused on hosting source code and reviewing merge requests. But… I’m not sure if the product would’ve ended up any better without being under Microsoft.

      Microsoft lately seems to take pretty hands off approaches and follow the “don’t fix what isn’t broken” rule well, which seems to be working for them.

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        They still behave like a monopoly. Microsoft owning everything is bad for tech even if they can throw money at it and make it “better.” I moved to codeberg.org and it’s been decent.

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      And now Azure DevOps has completely been forgotten about. I was setting up an web app in Azure and it gave me the option to do continuous integration from GitHub, but not Azure DevOps.

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        1 year ago

        This one hurts. My team at work currently uses AzDO for our build pipeline. It works pretty well, making it easy to trace which build actually got deployed, plus which git branch and commit got built. The variable substitution feature is pretty slick for test vs. prod builds, too.

        You can put together continuous integration with Github Actions, but from what I’ve seen so far, it seems so much more primitive :(

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            Interesting, sounds like merge queues can streamline some of the housekeeping around PRs. I’ll have to read up on them some more.

            I wasn’t thinking about differences between Github and AzDops repos, only between GH actions and AZ pipelines. My team moved the code to Github a long time ago – AZ pipelines is perfectly happy having the code there.

            Hmm, now I wonder if anyone keeps their code in AZ Repos and their CI stuff in Github Actions (probably not, it sounds absurd!)

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      1 year ago

      Amd abusing open source code for AI training without permissions…

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        1 year ago

        I agree that the way that train copilot is very morally iffy, but “without permission” isn’t totally accurate. That type of usage is covered by their ToS.

        If you don’t want MS to use your shit, self host a gitlab 🤷🏼‍♂️

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          If it was covered before copilot that’s something I actually wasnt aware of but if they added it afterwards it’s not actually a good point because they seem to feed it absolutely everything on the platform.

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            It certainly was - the github ToS grants Github (or MS in point of fact) the ability to use your code to “improve their products and services”, and has pretty much from the get-go.

            Now, with that being said, what with all the recent rulings surrounding copyright and AI, it’s possible that this clause will be deemed void in the context of training AI, but at least according to current law in the US, github was acting legally.

            Whether they were acting morally is much different question, and in my opinion the answer is no - but being evil has never stopped corporate America before, or resulted in them being held accountable