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That's not true for many people.

When working at Google, developers generally open-source their private projects (which are legally owned by Google) under a Google umbrella, with a Google copyright. This rarely stops developers. When I worked there, my incentive was to make my work more useful and give something back. I'm pretty sure many other Googlers feel the same way.

If Github found another way of making my work more useful to others, all the better. I would prefer if Copilot wasn't the only option, and if there was a good open-source alternative, but that's completely independent of the fact that my code was used to teach a neural network how to complete code snippets.