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Re:A bitter pill for Microsoft Copilot by marcodiego on Saturday July 10, 2021 @11:16AM (#27793923)
It is only an attack on OSS if licenses like the GPL are not respected. If copilot simply copies code it was trained on, it is more of a threat to proprietary software, since any sufficiently large copy from GPL'd software would have to be GPL licensed too.

If GPL is respected, copilot may help many proprietary softwares to be open source re-licensed. That should be seen as a positive outcome from FLOSS supporters.

But it is not easy to predict exactly what will happen and how people and companies will behave.

Re:A bitter pill for Microsoft Copilot by philipov on Saturday July 10, 2021 @11:31AM (#27794060)
If their use of GPL'd code is fair use, then they are probably not required to respect any restrictions the licenses places on the use of that code.
Re:A bitter pill for Microsoft Copilot by yepthatsreality on Saturday July 10, 2021 @11:28AM (#27794041)
I’m actually wondering why you would release such a product as it seems like a path to software developers unionizing.
Re:A bitter pill for Microsoft Copilot by canadianfella on Saturday July 10, 2021 @11:22AM (#27793987)
Softwares? Software is plural.
Re:A bitter pill for Microsoft Copilot by craftinator on Saturday July 10, 2021 @12:15PM (#27794400)
Actually, they both are correct. "Softwares" has a different and older connotation to it, but both are acceptable in English.