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This is typical Microsoft behavior: embrace, extend, and extinguish. They embraced open source with the intention of controlling (GitHub) and exploiting it. An
by coliveira 5y ago
This is typical Microsoft behavior: embrace, extend, and extinguish. They embraced open source with the intention of controlling (GitHub) and exploiting it. And the interesting thing is that many people fell for this already ancient strategy.
- qayxc 5y agoSo when MS does it it's evil, but it's perfectly fine for everyone else to do it? I also don't see how any of this follows - they could've just crawled GitLab or any other OSS repository. They didn't even need Github for this. Heck, is OpenAI doing embrace, extend, and extinguish on the entire web now, because they use Common Crawl [0] to train GTP-3, which forms the basis of CoPilot? [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_Crawl https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_Crawl
- rvz 5y agoWell, I did try to warn the Copilot fanatics [0]. They just downvoted me days ago and here we are. We have a GitHub Copilot backlash against the hype squad. The GitHub CEO is no where to be found to answer the important questions on software licenses, copyright and the legal implications on scraping the source code of tons of projects with those licenses for Copilot. The fact you can only use it in VSCode and with Microsoft having an exclusive deal with OpenAI screams an obvious 'embrace and extend', As for 'Extinguish', they will need to be very creative on that. [0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27685104 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27685104