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Re:Copilot sells code other people wrote by handoflixue on Thursday June 23, 2022 @02:41PM (#31853439)
> Every time we use courts to enforce IP we're strengthening the Walt Disneys and Nintendos of the world.

Can you actually point to substantial examples where Disney or Nintendo benefited significantly from a precedent set by an open source court case? Open source has been around for decades, so it should be trivial to find numerous clear-cut examples at this point... if your theory is actually correct.

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Re:Copilot sells code other people wrote by Guid_NewGuid on Thursday June 23, 2022 @02:46PM (#31853512)
No, I honestly have no idea. I know nothing about the law and understand even less. I may be wrong about all of this, but if we take the (laughable) idea of justice being blind it stands to reason any precedent that protects a single open source developer also protects Amazon's code.
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