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Re:GitHub Copilot by Trollmann on Tuesday June 29, 2021 @03:34PM (#27680705)
Will this hurt open source?

I assume companies that were fine with providing you functionality for free may think about this twice because with that they're giving away knowledge of how to build functionality.

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Re:GitHub Copilot by goodpoint on Wednesday June 30, 2021 @06:51AM (#27687051)
Yes. It will encourage using FOSS as a source of "examples" to use it in closed source.
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