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by dmurray 1771 days ago
They should have released this first instead of GitHub Copilot. The focus would then have been much more on "look at the cool stuff they can do" rather than "Microsoft is releasing a product that plagiarizes GPL code".

Once people had digested that and there had been a few other proof-of-concept business ideas around turning Codex into a SaaS (because some people will always queue to build their product on your API), announce the evil version. Not that I really think Copilot is evil, but the IP concerns are legitimate.

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Yes, its very strange to announce the product first and then the research.