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A comment on FSF-calls for white papers on philosophical and legal questions around Copilot.

Re:FSF-calls for white papers on philosophical and legal que... by lights0123 on Thursday July 29, 2021 @03:22PM (#28000308)
> It requires running software that is not free/libre (Visual Studio, or parts of Visual Studio Code)

A little nitpicky, but the only proprietary part it requires is the plugin itself, not the IDE—Copilot runs just fine with the Free build of VS Code compiled from source from GitHub, after flipping a switch to enable WIP APIs.

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Re:FSF-calls for white papers on philosophical and legal que... by r283492 on Thursday July 29, 2021 @03:34PM (#28000421)
I think you are wrong: https://vscodium.com/
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Re:FSF-calls for white papers on philosophical and legal que... by lights0123 on Thursday July 29, 2021 @06:26PM (#28002229)
VSCodium provides Free pre-compiled binaries of VS Code from GitHub, like I was describing. What about it makes me wrong?

I did it two days ago, installing the Copilot plugin in a Free build of VS Code provided by my distro.

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