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OpenAI Is Developing an Alternative To GitHub (www.reuters.com)
submitted 2 months ago by Innerworld@lemmy.world to c/technology@lemmy.world
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[–] gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works 36 points 2 months ago

Ew

[–] fubarx@lemmy.world 28 points 2 months ago (4 children)

Was self-hosting gitlab or foregejo not an option?

[–] DrCake@lemmy.world 18 points 2 months ago (1 children)

They’ll probably just fork forgejo add some slight “ai agentic” bullshit and market it as their own product.

I was going to say hopefully the forgejo licence doesn’t allow that but then again, OpenAI have shown they don’t really care about copyright or anything like that

[–] Goodlucksil@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Forgejo is licensed under GPLv3, so I think it isn't possible to do so

[–] Melusine@tarte.nuage-libre.fr 4 points 2 months ago

Correct me if I wrong, but the GPL has the weakpoint of web distribution in the sense that a backend is not shipped to the client, so you can keep a forked GPL product without publishing back. The AGPL was made for this (and the SSPL (I think) is like any network interface needed should be published too).

[–] skrlet13@feddit.cl 1 points 1 month ago

Probably they'll try that millenary genAI technique...

"rewrite this code so it's legally different and license it as I want"

[–] etchinghillside@reddthat.com 6 points 2 months ago

Those aren’t “agentic” enough.

[–] mrmaplebar@fedia.io 4 points 2 months ago

It was but then how could they pitch that to investors?

[–] BladeFederation@piefed.social 18 points 2 months ago

"What could be worse than MICROSOFT overseeing open source software? Wait no! It was a rhetorical question!"

[–] Casterial@lemmy.world 12 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Why? Seems like a massive waste of resources. We already have several source controls

[–] iopq@lemmy.world 5 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Github is not source control

[–] Casterial@lemmy.world 3 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

No, but there are so many other systems already out there that compete with it. Why reinvent the wheel when your company is already bleeding billions?

[–] Joelk111@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago

Gotta keep throwing shit at the wall.

[–] floquant@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Wasting resources is literally AI's main thing

[–] Casterial@lemmy.world 2 points 2 months ago

Lol true 😂

[–] gilokee@lemmy.world 7 points 2 months ago

!fuck_ai@lemmy.world

[–] pHr34kY@lemmy.world 7 points 2 months ago

I hope they call it "SlopTrough"

[–] tias@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 2 months ago

NIH

[–] ultimus@retrofed.com 1 points 1 month ago

this is used to scrape people code to train model. In recent times github restrict repo access without login so they maybe making own git platform.