[mahogany]

> The entire fucking concept of intellectual property and copyright is flawed from the get go.

Many people are upset because Microsoft is hiding behind copyright and lawyers to enforce it, while at the same time ignoring the concept of intellectual property when it comes to smaller players. I'd imagine that if Microsoft removed copyright on all their code and released it and Copilot as open source, there would be much less outrage.

The issue here, for me at least, isn't centered around copyright as a concept; it's about the asymmetry of the situation. Microsoft is exploiting those without any recourse in order to sell a product.

Your ideas about a new economy and no copyright are interesting, but they will not happen any time soon. In the meantime, in reality, Microsoft is making millions based on an enormous pile of community code while not offering their code back to that community.

[youssefabdelm]

This I can very much understand. I agree that this would've been the way to at least partially settle this. But then people will say "What about all the hard work of the employees / teams at Microsoft/OpenAI? Should they not get a return on their investment of time & money?"

In that case, something like the capped profit model OpenAI has (but with less profits) could work. They decide "Okay after we've reached this amount of money for Copilot, we'll both profit and have enough money to sustain it as a service until the next technological breakthrough makes this obsolete"

Then just make it free for everyone forever.