DeVault: GitHub Copilot and open source laundering

Posted Aug 30, 2022 13:27 UTC (Tue) by scientes (guest, #83068)
Parent article: DeVault: GitHub Copilot and open source laundering

I think there is too much attention to this feature rather the freedom-stealing aspects of github.

What I noticed is that github has serious rate-limiting on their search functionality, but google's codesearch project (which was a nerdy project and the RE2 regex library was built for it) embraced these type of searches. It looks like Microsoft is hostile to technical proficiency and just wants control and classical Microsoft things.

DeVault: GitHub Copilot and open source laundering

Posted Aug 30, 2022 15:22 UTC (Tue) by mathstuf (subscriber, #69389) [Link]

IIRC, search was hampered with rate limits and "must be logged in to search repo contents" since before the acquisition.