Software Freedom Conservancy to developers: Stay away from Microsoft GitHub
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New Delhi, Software Freedom Conservancy, a US-based nonprofit organisation, has called on the developer community to shun Microsoft-owned open source repository that now aims to make money with its commercial, for-profit product called " Software Freedom Conservancy, which is backed by , Red Hat and Mozilla, said that it has also ended all its own uses of GitHub, and announced a long-term plan to assist Fully Free and Open Source (FOSS) projects to migrate away from GitHub. and GitHub launched "Copilot" almost a year ago, developed in partnership with OpenAI, an AI research organisation owned by Microsoft. The company has now launched the commercial version of "Copilot" which is like s "Smart Compose" tool that aims to help you suggest text as you type. Facts changed last week when GitHub announced Copilot as a commercial, for-profit product," said Software Freedom Conservancy. "Launching a for-profit product that disrespects the FOSS community in the way Copilot does simply makes the weight of GitHubs bad behaviour too much to bear," it added.
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