Copilot is just showing a problem we had all along more clearly. Commercial entities take things that are written and maintained by volunteers in their free ti

Copilot is just showing a problem we had all along more clearly. Commercial entities take things that are written and maintained by volunteers in their free time and barely give back. And this culture has just developed in a way that this is at most a moral failure, not a legal. People put it on the internet with a permissive license because they want others use it. This is great because people love sharing, but now, before you know it, you're suddenly supporting large enerprises and not just people that want to put cool things together like you. And you don't get any kind of compensation, even though it'd be peanuts for the company to pay for the time you put into maintenance and new development. And if you stop, someone else will always fill the void, eager to work for free. Maintainer burnout is a real thing and I wish the largest user of FOSS code would do their part to make the time spent on every piece of code they use worth it. Half of "open source" is a success story, the other half is just sad. Copilot just automated this entire process and sells the product of code back to developers, not enterprises.