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From: J Leslie Turriff <jlturriff@mail.com>
To: libreplanet-discuss@libreplanet.org
Subject: Re: The beast is live - Github Copilot
Date: Wed, 29 Jun 2022 11:35:51 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <202206291135.51961.jlturriff@mail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87k091u3eh.fsf@ypei.me>

On 2022-06-27 17:50:46 Yuchen Pei wrote:
> On Sun 2022-06-26 17:25:24 -0700, Marc Sunet wrote:
> >> I feel that one difference between the values of free software and open
> >> source is that the free software does not have a problem with taking
> >> people's work and re-selling it, as long as the work being resold is
> >> free.  Whereas open source focus more on what authors get out of "open
> >> source".
> >
> > And in this case it is SaaSS. Not only is it trained on the existing
> > code in the repositories, it also seems to siphon code off your editor
> > as you type:
> >
> > https://github.com/features/copilot/#faq-privacy
>
> Of course there are ways to make it not SaaSS or privacy invading, if
> one is going to work on a free software version of copilot - all they
> need to do is not replicate the antifeatures.
>
> >> GitHub Copilot relies on file content and additional data to
> >
> >   work. It collects data both to provide the service and saves some of
> >   the data to perform further analysis and enable improvements.
> >
> >> Depending on your preferred telemetry settings, GitHub Copilot may
> >
> >   also collect and retain the following, collectively referred to as
> >   “code snippets”: source code that you are editing, related files and
> >   other files open in the same IDE or editor, URLs of repositories and
> >  files paths.
>
> Best,
> Yuchen


	My take on this is that software authors who value control of their code are well advised 
to move it to another repository.

Leslie
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  parent reply	other threads:[~2022-06-29 16:55 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2022-06-22  2:38 The beast is live - Github Copilot Marc Sunet
2022-06-24  0:10 ` Yuchen Pei
2022-06-25 20:47   ` Marc Sunet
2022-06-26  1:18     ` Yuchen Pei
2022-06-27  0:25       ` Marc Sunet
2022-06-27 22:50         ` Yuchen Pei
2022-06-29  9:51           ` Luna Jernberg
2022-06-29 16:35           ` J Leslie Turriff [this message]
     [not found] <mailman.75.1656086431.25891.libreplanet-discuss@libreplanet.org>
2022-06-24 21:13 ` Shironeko
2022-07-02 14:48   ` Jorge P. de Morais Neto

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