Are you guys fine with these new shenanigans from Github. I found a bug and wanted to check what has been the development on that, only to find out most of the discussion was hidden by github and requesting me to sign-in to view it.

It threw me straight back to when Microsoft acquired Github and the discussions around the future of opensource on a microsoft owned infrastructure, now microsoft is exploiting free work from the community to train its AI, and building walls around its product, are open source contributors fine with that ?

  • mark@programming.dev
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    5 months ago

    if buying isn’t owning, then piracy isn’t stealing. How can you steal something that the customer cannot own?

    By stealing it? You dont have to own something to steal it. Or maybe I’m reading that wrong. Lol it’s a very interesting take but I like the spirit of it… And it made me laugh. So it’s cool 😎

    • ElTacoEsMiPastor@lemmy.ml
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      5 months ago

      Using the first entry for steal on the English wiktionary:

      To take illegally, or without the owner’s permission, something owned by someone else without intending to return it.

      So, if you can’t actually own stuff, you can’t (by definition) steal it.

      I get your point, and this more of an AcKsHuALly type of argument, but it’s an fun way of begging the question of what “I own this” means in today’s society.