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by marssaxman 1341 days ago
And yet... open source software continues to slowly eat the world.
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With open source software you receive something very valuable: social capital, credit, respect.

Communism is where you do the work (or don't) and everybody is rewarded equally.

That's the Copilot model: you work hard to write the code, and receive nothing in return, because now everyone and their 10-year old brother can write it simply by asking for it... and your name never appears.

You were robbed.

I wasn't robbed; I gave it away on purpose. I don't care if my name appears; credit was never the point. Sharing back to the community which has shared so much with me is enough.
People like you can EXPLICITLY OPT IN to being used by Copilot or Dall-E.

The rest of us aren't so selfless.