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The reason everyone's so cynical about this is because Copilot is literally selling this code and it reeks of public relations rather than charity.
by beastman82 4y ago
The reason everyone's so cynical about this is because Copilot is literally selling this code and it reeks of public relations rather than charity.
- serial_dev 4y agoYes, the timing of this really makes me think that it could be to divert attention from the negative press that copilot got. Having people talk about whether 500k is the right amount to donate for a gigantic company like Microsoft is much better than people discussing the ethics, legality, trustworthiness and pricing of copilot. Last week we talked about whether or not it is legal to use license x to train their AI or if they will secretly steal our proprietary code and accidentally leak it for everyone else to see. Today we talk about whether the nice gesture for maintainers are enough.
- nickjj 4y agoYes and if I were to guess a lot of folks who are upset about copilot stealing and selling code don't have GitHub sponsors enabled so it feels not genuine. It reads more like "here's a friendly reminder that you can make money with open source as long as you enable GitHub sponsors which btw will make us money too[0]!". [0]: Organizations will have at least a 10% fee taken from GitHub once the beta is finished. There's also no guarantee that personal accounts will remain fee-less too, this could easily be "just another" spot where a company offers something for free for mass adoption and then charges for it later. In any case it's marketing for a feature that provides revenue to GitHub.
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