r/linux • u/AiwendilH • Jul 22 '26

Development Codeberg voted to disallow projects consisting mostly by "generative AI"-tools

https://codeberg.org/Codeberg/org/pulls/1253#issuecomment-19820434
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u/jakkos_ Jul 22 '26

Why are you in a Linux sub and mocking a non-profit trying to provide a free alternative to a Microsoft monopoly?

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u/ozone6587 Jul 23 '26

A non-profit full of Luddites. Worth mocking.

Lots of projects and organizations like these that behave dictatorially and are just very opinionated people. This is the final nail in the coffin for them. From 17 users to the 3 devs that hate AI enough to move to Codeberg. There is no way to win against technological progress. It has not worked out once in the history of humanity.

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u/Melivo Jul 30 '26

yep. you're either in for the "greater good" or something or you can gtfo

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u/TheG0AT0fAllTime Jul 23 '26

I think it's because they accidentally outed themselves as an offended slopper

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u/northrupthebandgeek Jul 22 '26

Microsoft does not hold anywhere close to a monopoly on Git forges lmao

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u/jakkos_ Jul 23 '26

By "monopoly", I don't mean you can't run your own git forge, I literally do. I'm saying that the vast majority of open source projects are on GitHub and using GitHub specific features like actions, PRs, vscode integrations, etc meaning that they can't easily move off of GitHub. It's microsoft doing EEE again.

If you look at the most popular -git packages on the AUR the vast majority are pulled from GitHub, same with nixpkgs, crates.io, pypi, etc.

I have to keep my GitHub account just so that I can create issues or submit fixes to projects I use. Comparatively so few projects use gitlab or srht or codeberg or whatever, that the only reason I have ever used an account for any of them has been to host my own code.

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u/RadioactiveBread 28d ago

Microsoft are more than generous with their free offerings to open source projects, there are practically no limits once you engage with them.

It's sad that as of late Microsoft have been doing more for the open source community than the Linux core die hards. MS have made so many self owns and yet they still look better than the petulant behaviour we've seen in this space over the last couple of years.

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u/jakkos_ 16d ago

I'm grateful to Microsoft for their contributions to open source, they employ some of the maintainers that I admire most, and I'm not saying people should "boycott everything Microsoft". I'm saying that we also need viable alternatives (that people actually use) to things like GitHub so that we aren't completely dependent on a profit-driven company that has a well-documented history of facilitating developer dependency and then later exploiting it.

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u/RadioactiveBread 14d ago

This is a fair response and I do agree for the most part.

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u/Melivo Jul 30 '26

because it's not really free. it's only as long as you code their way. (or let code)