@andypiper "thanks for giving Microsoft so much code for us to profit from, without obeying your terms or gaining consent, in our commercial projects such as Copilot, free of charge and without recourse"
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Honestly, I'm not thinking positively of my past "commercial" work. Even these that weren't purely for someone's greed/vanity.
I mean, I'm really grateful for the opportunity to work on #LLDB and I'm sure this helped some people.
But still, I can't help thinking that #LLVM is about a few corporations figuring out they can outsource toolchain dev to #OpenSource and just hire a few strategic devs to protect their interest. No offense to the contributors.
@mgorny Unfortunately I think that's a lot of how Open Source will work until we figure out a way to get resources without corporations influencing projects.
@mgorny And toolchain development is something that requires so much time and money that i think currently only large corporations cqn have the resources to tackle it
Today is a day of mixed emotions for me. The UK's COVID tracing app is finally closing. The app was, by any reasonable measure, a success. A team of experts at the Pandemic Sciences Institute at the University of Oxford and Department of Statistics at the University of Warwick estimate the NHS COVID-19 app prevented […]
@penguin42@jbond It's a mix of sovereignty of decision making, national security, and local needs.
It is surprisingly complicated to make a one-size-fits-all app.