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by efdee 1346 days ago
Claiming Github's Copilot is Microsoft's "Extinguish" step against open source _is_ the mental gymnastics.
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It really isn't mental gymnastic. Copilot, the model, is a program that is a derivative work of open source code. It should be open source.
That is another discussion. He is not claiming that it should be open source - he is claiming it is created to destroy open source.
He is me. Allowing large companies to ignore licenses and giving them a tool to launder licensed code at scale is a significant threat to the integrity of open source licenses.
I didn't claim such a thing, my claim is Microsoft's purchase of Github is not good for open source.
there it is