[deaux]

> It just takes a bit of planning.

Haha, no it just takes forcing user account name changes.

github.com/copilot, github.com/claude, github.com/models, basically everything you can think of for the last few years has been through this approach.

[efilife]

I wonder how they prompted these users to change their usernames. Was it just a "we need your username for our business, so comply" notice?

https://web.archive.org/web/20210702114132/github.com/copilo... some proof this was an actual user

[varun_ch]

Looks like he's now https://github.com/ogcopilot

[varun_ch]

Some more discussion on similar things: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38380344

[stavros]

"Hey, remember the username you've had for twenty years? Yeah we want it now"

[account42]

It's what you get for being a tenant rather than owning your own site.

[stavros]

And yet it's worth it for the network effects, sadly. These companies should be regulated, the moats are just too deep.

I like that the EU recognised this and did start to regulate that these companies need to interoperate.