Comment by tarkin2
5 days ago
Get people hooked, tell them spending time coding is no longer needed, let their skills deteriorate, tell them they need cough up for a licence to do their job
Forcing developers to pay for models that were build on code they scraped scott-free
A tax to do their job that developers are jumping at the chance to pay
Everybody's finally realising that node dependencies are a threat, but letting these AI companies gatekeep the industry is a bandwagon people are scrambling towards
> Forcing developers to pay for models that were build on code they scraped scott-free.
Yes this makes me sad behound explanation. Specially when I see open source developers happily using these tools. These companies stole your, free, hard work and charge you a subscription!! Not to speak about them torrenting books and (most likely) training on private repos.
This and devs paying a subscription to use a tool that is marketed as trying to replace them.
I had 150$ monthly budget thatbI used for various open source projects and I've cut that entirelly.
> These companies stole your, free, hard work and charge you a subscription!!
In case you weren't aware, Anthropic, OpenAI and GitHub Copilot all have programs that provide access to open source maintainers for free:
GitHub: https://docs.github.com/en/copilot/how-tos/copilot-on-github...
Anthropic: https://claude.com/contact-sales/claude-for-oss
OpenAI: https://developers.openai.com/community/codex-for-oss
> The Claude for Open Source Program is our way of saying thank you for all your hard work, with 6 months of free Claude Max 20x. Apply now.
> Six months of ChatGPT Pro with Codex for day-to-day coding, triage, review, and maintainer workflows
Those are free trials pending their approval in hopes of more paying customers, nothing more.
Was there comprehensive survey amongst maintainers that its fair price for decades of hard work?
I don't get what you're saying. You're frustrated that Open Source projects were used to build these AIs and that OS devs (or devs in general) are paying to use AI.
Then you say you had money that you used to donate(?) to OS and have cut that because of the frustration?
Open source just means sharing the source code for people to learn off or have the ability to customize on their own. I don't think there is any need to be frustrated about that (now if it was copyright/private of course).
> Open source just means sharing the source code for people to learn off or have the ability to customize on their own.
Yes people, not corporations. The point is there a licenses to be respected that weren't.
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> Forcing developers to pay for models that were build on code they scraped scott-free
That's also caused by some very smart (even brilliant) developers (you can see many of them in this very thread) choosing to be oblivious about all this and bury us all under, hoping that they'll be among the last ones to go. Writing this down I realise that they maybe aren't all that smart.