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Re:GitHub Copi­lot inves­ti­ga­tion by concordDance on Tuesday October 18, 2022 @04:13AM (#33244401)
> It would be because it's illegal and violates the licenses, desires, and intentions of the thousands of workers who wrote the code in its corpus

I'm almost entirely certain you're wrong about the desires bit. 99% of the developers who wrote that code won't mind.

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Re:GitHub Copi­lot inves­ti­ga­tion by shuger on Tuesday October 18, 2022 @07:21AM (#33245645)
> 99% of the developers who wrote that code won't mind

This is completely unsubstantiated. I for one would mind microsoft profiting from the closed source code I wrote.

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