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Re:GitHub scraped your code. And they plan to charge you by toomuchtodo on Saturday July 03, 2021 @03:51PM (#27724292)
So sue them and a court opinion can demonstrate where the line is and how much code can be replicated before attribution is required (and the product can be refined to ensure compliance).

Innovation should push boundaries.

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Re:GitHub scraped your code. And they plan to charge you by detaro on Saturday July 03, 2021 @03:52PM (#27724314)
They could push boundaries and publish one trained on all of Microsofts internal source code. Would for me be a great demonstration that they believe the "it's fair use and not violating copyright on the training data" argument.
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Re:GitHub scraped your code. And they plan to charge you by fartcannon on Saturday July 03, 2021 @04:25PM (#27724605)
It's more likely they'd sue someone who used it to develop something that ate into their lunch by saying it infringed on one of their 'secret' Linux patents they sabre rattle about every now and then.
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Re:GitHub scraped your code. And they plan to charge you by lc9er on Saturday July 03, 2021 @03:54PM (#27724338)
Are you equipped to fight a protracted legal battle with Microsoft? Neither is anyone else.
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Re:GitHub scraped your code. And they plan to charge you by joe_the_user on Saturday July 03, 2021 @04:01PM (#27724415)
The product is already dead. It's not just Microsoft that would be violating the license but any company using the application and Microsoft can't shield them.
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