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> open source laundering Microsoft already launders open source code by just hiring people in China and Romania to rewrite it. Copilot is their engineering cul
by an_opabinia 5y ago
> open source laundering
Microsoft already launders open source code by just hiring people in China and Romania to rewrite it. Copilot is their engineering culture distilled. However most big companies do this.
- kortilla 5y agoRewriting isn’t the same thing. Otherwise you could claim libreoffice devs are just laundering closed source Microsoft office code.
- fsloth 5y agoRewriting is totally ok. In every possible context. Because the opposite (blocking rewriting by some legal mechanism) would mean a past employer could slap a court order stopping a programmer from working ever again in any other company due to IP infringement since he could 'just copy his previous work and hence company ip'.