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What? Should I have to reimburse the author of every tutorial and Stack Overflow post I read on my journey to becoming a software engineer?
by johnfn 4y ago
What? Should I have to reimburse the author of every tutorial and Stack Overflow post I read on my journey to becoming a software engineer?
- wyager 4y agoThey intentionally opted in to sharing their work with you in a certain way. If someone copy pasted stack overflow answers and made them into a book, which they sold for money, that would be wrong.
- johnfn 4y agoOK... but it's totally possible to use Github repo code as a learning resource too, and I've done this often.
- IshKebab 4y agoPeople do do that. But I think that's a bit different because they add very little extra value. It doesn't take any effort. Why should I give them money? Copilot is different - it clearly takes a lot of skill and effort to turn a bunch of GitHub repos into a fancy autocomplete system.
- flawn 4y agoit's using GPT-3 and, mhm, I guess everyone having proprietary access at GitHub's resources and computing power would be able to get this running.
- ceeplusplus 4y agoThose authors are getting views and imaginary internet points for their work, which is often times more valuable than money to programmer types. It's not like people write SO posts for a salary.
- 6gvONxR4sf7o 4y agoObviously not, but products and people are generally treated differently. Hell, even commercial products and free products are often treated differently.
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- skohan 4y agoIf Stack Overflow sold its services as a subscription service, then maybe you would feel entitled to a share of the profit off of your work.