Microsoft revoked my GitHub Copilot Beta licence because it is now available for everyone for $10/month :(

Fuck you Microsoft

MICRO💲OFT

Sorry to bother but this tag ("devrant") isn't meant for rants, it's meant for discussions about this platform

@jonas-w ah my bad, I am outside my 5 min window:(

@jespersh what do you mean? I didn't see anything about getting it for contributing

And also. Makes sense that a company wants to earn money. Can't provide shit for free all the time.

@ScriptCoded don't get me wrong, I am not pissed at the fact that they charge for the service, that makes perfect sense, its the fact that they revoked my pre existing licence (albeit a beta tester licence)

Yea, companies want to make money, but Microsoft trained the model on all of the community's open source code and did it for free, so the least they could do is release their crappy copyright infringement generator as a free and open source product.

@hamolicious Well, you never really had a license, right? You were in a beta tester programme. And so was I. You basically got to enjoy it for free for a year or so.

@NotJeckel, those miners took these diamonds for free, the least they can do is give them out for free.

@Earu What a bad analogy.

Mining rocks from the ground is in no way comparable to automated scraping of web content. If you think it is, then maybe go outside and dig a ditch.

Unlike diamonds, the code they scraped isn't a naturally occurring resource. It's code that was created through the effort of other people that were nice enough to share it as open source.

If you don't want to give to the open source community, then don't take from it; go pay money to train the crappy auto-infringement algorithm on proprietary codebases and leave us the hell out of it.

Kinda bugs me that people get so upset when something goes from free to paid.

As if they would prefer no one would have ever had free access at all.

GitHub isn't open source.

It was never OpenSource afaik and will never be.

Even before the Microsoft aquistion GitHub was an profit oriented company - right from the beginning as a startup.

After all, GitHub is an _provider_ - stuff doesn't come for free and somehow someone has to pay for the myriad of services provided.

I don't want to say GitHub = bad - but I've had many people who were... Naive... Like innocent dumb naive... Regarding GitHub.

Sure it is nice, but never forget that GitHubs main intent is to make money.

Everything free is like when a drug dealer gives you a "taste" - you shall come back so the cash keeps flowing.

Free is never without intent in companies.

@catgirldev it kind of explains this move.

Also most companies are overvalued.