+ + Rant: Stop whatever you are doing and learn how licenses work + + +
+ + + + + +Recently, Github announced +that they are making Github Copilot available for everyone. Previously, it was in Beta and you could get it through the waiting l...
+diff --git a/2021/12/24/first-blog-post.html b/2021/12/24/first-blog-post.html index 1e66d09..4a4056c 100644 --- a/2021/12/24/first-blog-post.html +++ b/2021/12/24/first-blog-post.html @@ -402,6 +402,53 @@ So here I am and welcome to my first blog. Having a personal space on the Intern +
Recently, Github announced +that they are making Github Copilot available for everyone. Previously, it was in Beta and you could get it through the waiting l...
+Story -I believe there is always a “tech support person” in every home. Everyone knows that when there is a problem with any electronic device, they should as...
-Recently, Github announced +that they are making Github Copilot available for everyone. Previously, it was in Beta and you could get it through the waiting l...
+Story -I believe there is always a “tech support person” in every home. Everyone knows that when there is a problem with any electronic device, they should as...
-Recently, Github announced +that they are making Github Copilot available for everyone. Previously, it was in Beta and you could get it through the waiting l...
+Story -I believe there is always a “tech support person” in every home. Everyone knows that when there is a problem with any electronic device, they should as...
-Recently, Github announced +that they are making Github Copilot available for everyone. Previously, it was in Beta and you could get it through the waiting l...
+Story -I believe there is always a “tech support person” in every home. Everyone knows that when there is a problem with any electronic device, they should as...
-Recently, Github announced +that they are making Github Copilot available for everyone. Previously, it was in Beta and you could get it through the waiting l...
+Story -Today, I have recorded a video for one of my classes and I was required to upload it till midnight. The video was perfect except for a few seconds wher...
-Recently, Github announced +that they are making Github Copilot available for everyone. Previously, it was in Beta and you could get it through the waiting l...
+Story -Today, I have recorded a video for one of my classes and I was required to upload it till midnight. The video was perfect except for a few seconds wher...
-Recently, Github announced +that they are making Github Copilot available for everyone. Previously, it was in Beta and you could get it through the waiting l...
+Story -Today, I have recorded a video for one of my classes and I was required to upload it till midnight. The video was perfect except for a few seconds wher...
-Recently, Github announced +that they are making Github Copilot available for everyone. Previously, it was in Beta and you could get it through the waiting l...
+Story -Today, I have recorded a video for one of my classes and I was required to upload it till midnight. The video was perfect except for a few seconds wher...
-Recently, Github announced +that they are making Github Copilot available for everyone. Previously, it was in Beta and you could get it through the waiting list. +When I saw the news, I thought I can give it a try. But not so surprisingly it was not free. You have 3 ways to get it:
+I think I should be able to use it for free because I am a student but apparently they are not convinced yet. Anyways, that is a different +story. I don’t care if they will give me access to Github Copilot or not. It is not a big deal for me.
+ +But some people were really angry about how Github Team being vague while defining the criteria as “being a maintainer of a popular open source project”. +I think they are right to some extent. If all you need is having a few thousands stars for a project, you could easily get that. I know a lot of troll +or low effort repositories that get a lot of stars because they are funny.
+ +Later, I found another tweet that explains how Github decides what is popular. According to +this tweet, if you have a repository that is in top 1000 in one of the most popular 34 languages, you are eligible to get Github Copilot for free. +This is better than the previous definition but you can still argue that it is not fair because one can create a package for checking if a number is +even or not and get thousands of stars.
+ +You can criticize this, I get that. But do not come up with silly arguments to justify yourself. Like how on earth would you think that Github is doing +something bad because $10/month is too much for this service? It is business man, you pay if you think it is worth it. That’s it. “I joined beta program +and it was free, now they want to charge me if I want to continue using it. They did not tell me that.” Uhhm… What? Are you aware that what you are using +is another company’s service and they have all rights to do whatever they want with their service? How you guys even can think of like that?! This is crazy!
+ +Some people argue that what Github is doing is wrong because they used open source projects without consent. Another similar argument is that what +Github is doing is evil because they used projects developed by community and now they are selling it without giving any money to the contributors of +these projects. Do you guys even have an idea what licenses stands for? If you don’t want to some random person use your code, just license it that +way. And if you licensed it with a GPL compatible or similar license you already gave rights anyone to use or sell your code. That is not Github’s +problem. That is your problem not understanding how licenses work. Stop complaining.
+ + +Recently, Github announced +that they are making Github Copilot available for everyone. Previously, it was in Beta and you could get it through the waiting l...
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