GitHub announcing a $10M open-source fund

https://twitter.com/github/status/1590404832116211712

by jdorfman • 4 years ago

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vincengomes• 4 years ago

Direct Link to the Blog Post :

https://github.blog/2022-11-09-an-open-source-economy-built-...

whit537• 4 years ago

Hrm, it's a $10M venture capital fund, plus a $400k fellows/mentorship program. I thought at first that it was a $10M sponsorship fund like we recently did at Sentry, I was gonna be excited about that. :^)

4gotunameagain• 4 years ago

okay I will be that guy.

funny how it comes right after major rouse because of their ethically murky use of open source code.

cosmodisk• 4 years ago

I'm with you on this one.

echelon3• 4 years ago

They're teaching a computer as you would a student or child.

The minute you see Linux kernel sources, your future output is not forever tainted by the GPL.

It's one thing if they've overfit. But we're still so early in this. It would suck to let the Luddites kill a technological development perhaps on par with or even greater than the Internet itself.

Where are these same voices when artists' output serves as the training set? Or novels? Or forum posts?

If this lawsuit succeeds, we'll cut ourselves off at the knees too. We won't be able to develop models either due to the mishmash of licenses.

jrochkind12• 4 years ago

I don't understand, what does training a machine learning algorithm like Pilot have in common with teaching a student or child? Teaching them programming? Don't you teach a student or child with lectures and exersizes and practice, not with trying to simply have them read terrabytes of existing code of varying sophistication and figuring they'll know how to program on the other end? What am I missing?

nightski2• 4 years ago

I don't want to stop it at all! I encourage them to develop co-pilot. But it should be a toggle on each repository and should require explicit user action to opt-in.

sidmitra• 4 years ago

Then shouldn't this greater-than-internet technological evolution happen under some public domain, licensing of sorts, instead of in a proprietary silo?

Atleast the web had RFCs, and came from a "research" institution. Here there's nothing but a "cloud", and perhaps some day they'll let you pay 8$ for a blue checkmark to commit code.

zamalek• 4 years ago

And $10M isn't all that much given the size of OSS.

wooptoo• 4 years ago

If greenwashing is a term used for oil companies what would fit here? Opensourcewashing?

jdcaron• 4 years ago

It’s all virtue signaling in the end so we could just call it that.

rglover• 4 years ago

"Just give them some money!" <-- Public relations dingus that came up with this move in response to the Copilot robbery.

Nah. Hard pass.

Mandatum• 4 years ago

Funny. They’ve built their business, just like IBM, and so many others - on open-source tools and libraries.

And that’s all they’ll commit?

It’s not even annual.

And it looks like it’s a “we’re targeting new projects” which means they’re trying to get Microsoft tooling support early.

GitHub announcing a $10M open-source fund

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