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Why is this noteworthy? Who is this person? Am I missing something? I agree that there needs to be talk about licensing and copyright but with so "less/no cont
by hashhar 5y ago
Why is this noteworthy? Who is this person? Am I missing something?
I agree that there needs to be talk about licensing and copyright but with so "less/no content" there can be no meaningful discussion other than aimless banter.
- judge2020 5y agoThey're not particularly popular on HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/from?site=thelig.ht https://news.ycombinator.com/from?site=thelig.ht (except for https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18133450 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18133450 ) And their only huge project on GitHub is dbxfs, a userspace dropbox filesystem with 687 stars https://github.com/rianhunter?tab=repositories&q=&type=&language=&sort=stargazers https://github.com/rianhunter?tab=repositories&q=&type=&lang... I think this is just a post meant to continue the discussion of CoPilot past the first 2 days of news.
- pmarreck 5y agoI'm glad the post showed up because I've been in the hospital for 3 days and I was like HOLY SHIT WHAT IS THIS? ;)
- eitland 5y ago> Who is this person? One of the beautiful things about HN is that you don't need to be anything, you just have to have something interesting to say.
- meibo 5y agoThis isn't interesting though. It doesn't even provide any value. It's a random guy that doesn't like GitHub, it could have just as well been a HN comment from yesterday. It's just posted(not by the guy that made the page, mind you) to farm karma, exploit the news cycle and carve out some more space for discussion of this tired topic.
- eitland 5y agoIf it sparks the necessary discussions I don't care if it was written by Joe Random Nobody or Joe Biden. > It's just posted(not by the guy that made the page, mind you) Others would complain if the author himself had posted this.
- Dylan16807 5y agoThe necessary discussion was already sparked.
- eitland 5y agoWell, a lot of the people with voting rights here obviously thought otherwise.
- Dylan16807 5y agoAn upvote doesn't mean you think something is new or needed sparking. There are very often redundant posts on a topic.
- eitland 5y agoSometimes things were flagged off the front page while we was asleep or at work despite many votes. Happens fairly regularly. Sometimes we've seen it but it is a new angle.
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- exolymph 5y agowhy are you on an upvote-based aggregator + forum if you're not looking for upvote-based links + commentary?
- IshKebab 5y agoRight, but you either need a solid argument or some authority, and this guy has neither. He's effectively a nobody and he has just jumped to the conclusion that CoPilot is illegal. If he had a good argument for that, fine. But without that he really needs to be someone whose opinion I care about.
- NiceWayToDoIT 5y agoThis is somehow inverse logic. Does rape victim needs authority to voice raping in order to validate it? What is there that is not solid, CoPilot is using community code that is under GPL licence therefore Microsoft should not be able to charge for CoPilot but give it for free, or not create another revenue stream.
- IshKebab 5y agoNo, a rape victim needs a solid argument, i.e. evidence. > What is there that is not solid, CoPilot is using community code that is under GPL licence therefore Microsoft should not be able to charge for CoPilot but give it for free, or not create another revenue stream. You're doing the same thing as OP by assuming that this is illegal. That had yet to be determined. It could easily be the case that this falls under some fair use law or isn't even covered by copyright. It isn't for humans!
- NiceWayToDoIT 5y agoThat argument is in infinite wrong loop, it seams like a justification of rapist with kind of Stockholm syndrome. Fair use can be drill down to following, a very simple exploit question. Would you work for free, if someone would earn million on your own work? if (answer===yes) { "then let me employ you I have few ideas and I need free work that could make me wealthy." } else { "if no then your entire argument is pure hypocrisy, trying to justify wealth built on exploit of others" }
- qwertox 5y agoHow about just leaning back and reading the discussions which evolve out of this post? Some may have something to say about it which will either help you solidify your point of view or add a new perspective to it which you might have missed. The topic is a current one [1], which makes it even more valuable. [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27676266 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27676266
- pcthrowaway 5y ago> Why is this noteworthy? Who is this person? Am I missing something Why is this comment noteworthy? Who is this person? Am I missing something?