GitHub Copilot is generally available

Re:GitHub Copilot is generally available by lolinder on Tuesday June 21, 2022 @11:44PM (#31831808)

Their point is that they didn't need to own GitHub to build copilot—they could have used the public code regardless.

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Re:GitHub Copilot is generally available by croes on Wednesday June 22, 2022 @12:04AM (#31831903)

It's a lot more complicated to crawl code somewhere in the web than to crawl github.

They could even change github so it benefits their code crawling.

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Re:GitHub Copilot is generally available by buildbot on Wednesday June 22, 2022 @12:51AM (#31832155)

That would be a problem if Microsoft didn’t also have their own Bing

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Re:GitHub Copilot is generally available by usr1106 on Wednesday June 22, 2022 @02:29AM (#31832669)

Oh, is Bing still a thing? Honest question, haven't heard it mentioned for years. Went from Altavista to Google (I believe, it's a long time ago...) and now to DDG a couple of years ago. Never considered Bing directly although I believe DDG results come or came from Bing.

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Re:GitHub Copilot is generally available by aembleton on Wednesday June 22, 2022 @05:26AM (#31833683)

Yes, Bing still exists. Like you say, that's where a lot of DDG results come from.

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Re:GitHub Copilot is generally available by jjluoma on Saturday June 25, 2022 @07:26AM (#31874339)

Maybe they have a stronger position because they own GitHub. There is at least "Release and Indemnification" section in the terms of service.

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