From: Yuchen Pei <hi@ypei.me>
To: Marc Sunet <msunet@shellblade.net>
Cc: libreplanet-discuss@libreplanet.org
Subject: Re: The beast is live - Github Copilot
Date: Tue, 28 Jun 2022 08:50:46 +1000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87k091u3eh.fsf@ypei.me> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <915381b2-db74-80fb-2cde-60d418740d19@shellblade.net> (Marc Sunet's message of "Sun, 26 Jun 2022 17:25:24 -0700")
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
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2022-06-27 22:51 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 [this message]
2022-06-29 9:51 ` Luna Jernberg
2022-06-29 16:35 ` J Leslie Turriff
[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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