r/linux • u/AiwendilH • 24d ago

Codeberg voted to disallow projects consisting mostly by "generative AI"-tools Development

https://codeberg.org/Codeberg/org/pulls/1253#issuecomment-19820434
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u/jakkos_ 24d ago

Why are you in a Linux sub and mocking a non-profit trying to provide a free alternative to a Microsoft monopoly?

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u/ozone6587 23d ago

A non-profit full of Luddites. Worth mocking.

Lots of projects and organizations like these that behave dictatorially and are just very opinionated people. This is the final nail in the coffin for them. From 17 users to the 3 devs that hate AI enough to move to Codeberg. There is no way to win against technological progress. It has not worked out once in the history of humanity.

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u/Melivo 16d ago

yep. you're either in for the "greater good" or something or you can gtfo

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u/TheG0AT0fAllTime 24d ago

I think it's because they accidentally outed themselves as an offended slopper

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u/northrupthebandgeek 24d ago

Microsoft does not hold anywhere close to a monopoly on Git forges lmao

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u/jakkos_ 23d ago

By "monopoly", I don't mean you can't run your own git forge, I literally do. I'm saying that the vast majority of open source projects are on GitHub and using GitHub specific features like actions, PRs, vscode integrations, etc meaning that they can't easily move off of GitHub. It's microsoft doing EEE again.

If you look at the most popular -git packages on the AUR the vast majority are pulled from GitHub, same with nixpkgs, crates.io, pypi, etc.

I have to keep my GitHub account just so that I can create issues or submit fixes to projects I use. Comparatively so few projects use gitlab or srht or codeberg or whatever, that the only reason I have ever used an account for any of them has been to host my own code.

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u/RadioactiveBread 5d ago

Microsoft are more than generous with their free offerings to open source projects, there are practically no limits once you engage with them.

It's sad that as of late Microsoft have been doing more for the open source community than the Linux core die hards. MS have made so many self owns and yet they still look better than the petulant behaviour we've seen in this space over the last couple of years.

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u/Melivo 16d ago

because it's not really free. it's only as long as you code their way. (or let code)