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@ -43,19 +43,19 @@ the most important ones:
<ul>
<li><p>Microsoft has escalated the incorporation of its for-profit
<a href="https://github.com/features/copilot" rel="nofollow">Copilot
product</a>. The CoPilot bannernow incorporates many different, proprietary,
product</a>. The Copilot banner now incorporates many different, proprietary,
so-called &ldquo;Artificial Intelligence&rdquo; (<abbr>AI</abbr>)
products. However, the first CoPilot product was designed
products. However, the first Copilot product was designed
to automatically generate code interactively for developers, and that
feature is still pushed on GitHub users.
CoPilot's AI model was trained
Copilot's AI model was trained
(<a href="https://github.blog/2021-06-30-github-copilot-research-recitation/"
rel="nofollow">according to GitHub's own statements</a>) exclusively with
projects that were hosted on GitHub, including many licensed
under <a href="https://sfconservancy.org/copyleft-compliance/glossary.html#copyleft">copyleft</a>
licenses. (Microsoft even admits that there was one document that they
encountered (and ignored) <q>a whopping 700,000 different times during
training &mdash: &hellip; the GNU General Public License</q>.</p>
training &mdash; &hellip; the GNU General Public License</q>.</p>
<p>Most of those projects are not in the &ldquo;public
domain&rdquo;, they are licensed
@ -75,7 +75,7 @@ the most important ones:
of creating proprietary software are grave.</p> </li>
<li>Along with the crescendo of &ldquo;AI&rdquo; ballyhoo, Microsoft has rolled out more
products that include these technologies into GitHub. Microsoft's CoPilot
products that include these technologies into GitHub. Microsoft's Copilot
is <a href="https://mastodon.social/@glyph/114995950245874315">now
generating issues and pull requests and GitHub users <strong>cannot opt
out</strong></a>. This use is unconscionable and is reason enough alone
@ -114,7 +114,7 @@ complaints about GitLab's business model of parallel &ldquo;Community&rdquo;
and &ldquo;Enterprise&rdquo; editions, at least GitLab's Community Edition
provides basic functionality for self-hosting and is 100% FOSS. Meanwhile,
there are <em>non-profit</em> FOSS hosting sites such
as <a href="https://codeberg.org">CodeBerg</a>, who develop their platform
as <a href="https://codeberg.org">Codeberg</a>, who develop their platform
publicly as FOSS.</p></li>
<li><p>GitHub has long sought to discredit copyleft generally. Their various
@ -204,14 +204,14 @@ the <a href="https://lists.sfconservancy.org/mailman/listinfo/give-up-github">Gi
<p>Our primary recommendation at this time for self-hosting
is <a href="https://forgejo.org/">Forgejo</a>, and if you would like a
hosted service, we recommend <a href="https://codeberg.org">CodeBerg</a>
hosted service, we recommend <a href="https://codeberg.org">Codeberg</a>
(which is built on Forgejo). Below we include a list of various options
for both third-party hosting and self-hosting:</p>
<ul>
<li>Alternative Hosting Services:
<ul>
<li><a href="https://codeberg.org">CodeBerg</a></li>
<li><a href="https://codeberg.org">Codeberg</a></li>
<li><a href="https://sourcehut.org/">SourceHut</a></li>
</ul>
<li>Self-Host (or join a group that self-hosts). A few options:
@ -234,8 +234,8 @@ the <a href="https://lists.sfconservancy.org/mailman/listinfo/give-up-github">Gi
URL widely, along with
the <a href="https://sfconservancy.org/img/GiveUpGitHub.svg">GiveUpGitHub
logo</a> on public platforms like
the <a href="https://fedi.copyleft.org/@bkuhn/115011409937801978">fediverse
/ Mastodon</a>.</p>
the <a href="https://floss.social/@downey/110657456122551808">fediverse
/ Mastodon</a> &mdash; using the hashtag #GiveUpGitHub.</p>
<p>Second, you can also raise the importance of this issue