[charcircuit]

This article makes a big mistake. It assumes copyright infringement is extremely bad and would never be worth doing. In practice when have people been sued over misusing open source software? You most likely won't be caught. And even if you are you can rewrite the code / give attribution then. Even if you do end up having to pay damages, the productivity increase for your company using copilot may be worth the damages.

[paulryanrogers]

After Google vs Oracle damages could easily have two or three commas.

[charcircuit]

I don't understand what you mean. In Google vs Oracle the copyright infringement for the copied code was settled for $0. Open source projects are not as sue happy as Oracle is.

[paulryanrogers]

Last I heard it was tens of millions. I'll have to look again.

> Open source projects are not as sue happy as Oracle is.

Comes across as punching down. Like it's OK to steal from the mom and pop stores, they're too poor and overworked to do anything about it.

[charcircuit]

>Like it's OK to steal from the mom and pop stores, they're too poor and overworked to do anything about it.

An action that is worth the risk is not neccesarily morally or ethically correct.

The article only cared about money and security. Feeling good about your actions wasn't a concern.