The developer finally grew a spine and realized he didn't want to do it for free. So he added some code to his library (SponsorLink) that runs in your IDE, reads your .gitconfig, checks if your email address is registered as a sponsor, and possibly slows down your build if it's not.
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I wonder if anyone at Microsoft uses this internally 😂 Hope they get their emails harvested
The Github issue and Reddit threads on this are pretty calm. Maybe there will be more drama in the coming days/weeks, when companies forbid their employees from using this library, and code monkeys have to rewrite all their unit tests. Redditards are trying to reportmaxx SponsorLink but nothing has happened yet.
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I think the extreme success of the free software, but more broadly open source, model of development has been amazing but clearly the ideology didn't keep up with growth. Now we have a lot of devs who never had heard of free software principles and confused when they get zero $$ in return.
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I think the issue is more that large numbers of projects depend on open source repositories whose devs cannot sustainably maintain it for free. It's all well and good releasing a free tool, but when half of the internet needs it maintained but don't want to fund the time to do so you end up with this sort of shit.
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Just don't maintain it then.
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But you don't understand they need 11 line package! DEVELOPMENT IS AT RISK OTHERWISE!
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They typically don't, but then put up with constant screeching about how shitty "the dev" is.
The response is usually "if you want it maintained then donate".
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Clearly soydevs are too stupid to market themselves as consultants for their own software so they get huge payouts whenever companies have a problem. Also the new autocomplete github tools are pretty scary in how this just removes any need for low level programming skills. Things will be fricked when the last soydev who nows C/C++ retires.
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how useful is it
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amazing if you know how to program, 10x speedup unironically
incredible foot gun if you're a monkey that writes code barely knowing what you're doing
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It's actually pretty good, it won't really write new code for you but it's perfect for when you're sitting at the start of a line trying to remember what you were going to write, it usually pops up with something similar
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Not at all
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Free software principles don't prevent monetization, it's “free as in speech”, not “free as in beer”
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Yes usually if you go into these things from first principles you'll see the possible avenues of monetization but will also be doing it for moral reasons which will make it sting less.
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Yea I ran an open source project for a while, 1000 daily downloads (but a lot of those would be users updating) and over 2 years I made ~ 100 bucks.
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They dont even market themselves or provide an avenue for companies to get support through them. Then one day they realize they are doing it for free and put in malware to cope, few months will go by and the project will be dead and archived.
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They do use it, but that might change lol.
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Open source is communism. that is why I will never donate to a single open source project including rdrama
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It is and that's a good thing
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Same
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I really don't care about this because I don't write unit tests ever, I even forgot how to write them
edit butt frick me, i might have to start re writing old tests if MEND reports this as a vulnerability
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Unit testing is for girls and queers.
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but then sonarqube says 0% coverage and rejects PR
I make it optional tho despite company policy
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Same but with QA.
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Yes, all over the place. At least as of 2 years ago
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Good find! Author showing their in assuming no company has all private git server.
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https://github.com/moq/moq/issues/1372#issuecomment-1671627931
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linus with a stache?
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Oh wow, really glad I stopped using moq.
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Lol BSDcels
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It's already over
https://github.com/moq/moq/commit/a7dcd43c3ca192ad3dcc813f4ddedae96914fe26
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