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by nsagent 889 days ago
Microsoft has a very long history of fighting piracy and they are one of OpenAI's main funders. It's definitely hypocrisy.

Former Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer: "Piracy reduction can be a source of Windows revenue growth." [1]

Current Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella: "Well, we’ve always had freemium. Sometimes our freemium was called piracy." [2]

[1]: https://www.zdnet.com/article/only-consumers-pressure-can-cu...

[2]: https://www.cnbc.com/2014/10/20/cnbc-exclusive-cnbc-transcri...