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donmccurdy@fosstodon.org

Don McCurdy

I've been expecting something like this since the XZ hack, but still ... frustrated/annoyed/sad to see Microsoft and 13 (!) partners jointly announcing that their answer is to “educate” open source maintainers.

It's nice that they're compensating maintainers for the time spent on that training, but ... compliance with corporate security policies is still a whole lot of ongoing, unpaid work after that? Sigh.

https://github.blog/news-insights/company-news/announcing-github-secure-open-source-fund/

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donmccurdy@fosstodon.org

Don McCurdy

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If your company relies on open source software and wants to support maintainers, please don't do it this way.

Better models include:

- Tidelift
- Open Source Pledge
- Sovereign Tech Fund Fellowship for Maintainers

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Foxboron@chaos.social

Morten Linderud

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@donmccurdy

> Maintainers will get hands-on learning of security principles, tools like GitHub Copilot and Copilot Autofix to help improve security posture, reduce security debt, and improve confidence of downstream users.

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aral@mastodon.ar.al

Aral Balkan

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@donmccurdy Man, I’d have expected better from a trillion-dollar surveillance capitalist that trains its AI on your code.

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krzk

Krzysztof Kozlowski

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@donmccurdy Copilot training and "3-week program consisting of a 5-10 hour commitment each week" is exactly what community needs to fix cases like XZ with busy maintainer bullied by bad actors.

Microsoft, are you ill? Are you just joking here around or just want to sell your crapy Copilot? This is just an insult to Open Source maintainers.

@martin.social You do not see how inappropriate this is?
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