Comment on OpenAI tries to build its coding cred, acquires Python toolmaker Astral

• wingswithbones@lemmus.org ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  I’m not sure if you’re serious but now this company is no longer competing in the market against companies like OpenAI and is instead owned by OpenAI

  I honestly cannot help you if that is not enough for you to understand the basic issue

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  • TheBlackLounge@lemmy.zip ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    They were not competing before? Astral’s product is private package repo’s. Maybe that will get abandoned but the FOSS projects are safe.

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    • wingswithbones@lemmus.org ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      the team that used to work on Astral now works for OpenAI and will now only operate under its direction and for its interests. Whatever you’re talking about is a separate issue

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      • partofthevoice@lemmy.zip ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        That’s not how competition works. Astral made a different product, served different audiences, and the markets were not competitive. Astral made tools that help a human developer organize and maintain their code. Nothing to do with chatbots. The team now being at OpenAI means jack shit about anticompetitive practices.

        This is sad because Astral made good open source tools and I don’t trust OpenAI to keep that up.

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