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"You can't use the data for commercial purposes, which is harsh enough on its own -- it means the data should only be interesting to people who plan to be acade
by jonhendry18 8y ago
"You can't use the data for commercial purposes, which is harsh enough on its own -- it means the data should only be interesting to people who plan to be academics permanently, or who don't plan to succeed at anything they do with it."
It'd also be useful for someone farting around with machine learning who isn't anywhere close to being at a point of shipping anything to anyone else.
What you can benefit from is what you learn while using the data. Then you start a new project using what you've learned, and using different data.
- rspeer 8y agoWhy would you plan to fail? You could just use different data from the start that doesn't require you to sign an NDA. It's not like MSR is providing a rare commodity.
- jonhendry18 8y ago"Why would you plan to fail?" Because it isn't failure if your only goal is to learn.
- nerdponx 8y agoIt'd also be useful for someone farting around with machine learning who isn't anywhere close to being at a point of shipping anything to anyone else. This is the only use I can see for this data under those license terms. And even then, you are still technically granting Microsoft a super-license to do whatever they want with whatever you come up with, and probably also not allowed to upload it to Github.