Post #3359037
2026-06-20 06:55 UTC
Afriend of mine sees using GitHub as microslop paying reparations to open source.
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@utopiah@lemmy.ml 2026-06-20 07:10
Right, like how Micro$lop : blocked repository search without login (while it worked before the acquisition) pushed in the most traditional Micro$lop fashion for its own product, e.g. Copilot, with in product ads use repositories as ways to feed its own set of products, e.g. Azure for OpenAI, in order to push for code generation while ignoring licenses and all the other things (please feel free to make this list more comprehensive) as “reparations”? It’s the same old "Embrace, extend, and extinguish " (EEE) scheme they’ve been (sadly successfully) running for decades now.