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I wish they were as careful of other's people's code IP as they're with their own. If this is not derivative work, how come they didn't use their own codebase

• jstummbillig 4y ago
  > how come they didn't use their own codebase instead of taking the opensource ones? Convenience probably. Using their own code would have required them to coordinate inhouse, and carefully and expensively sanitise everything, because committing their code, which was largely never written to be open sourced, to run the wild Copilot experiment (which it still is at this point) probably seemed a little riskier than they liked, potentially creating some kind of security disaster. So just use the stuff that is already in the open and thus better be secure enough as is, at what they apparently deem the relatively small risk and costs of lawsuits happening. I could also see them wanting to test the water on how the license thing flies.
• wrycoder 4y ago
  MS may well have something similar internally, they are just never going to expose it publicly. They get the best of both worlds.