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well, none of us stand to gain from that technicality being violated, only M$ does, and the law does thrive on technicalities.

• rsstack 4y ago
  The law thrives on technicalities, Open Source isn't doomed by them. Lawyers might make money from this, Microsoft might make money from this, but Open Source won't die from this.
  • w4ffl35 4y ago
    if this is legal then what prevents us from scraping github, gitlab etc. and making the same product? edit: my guess is github / gitlab etc terms of service would probably prevent this.
    • rsstack 4y ago
      I didn't say legal, but yes: you can build your own product that does that. It is a hard product to build, but yes. Copilot actually has several competitors, some of them have existed for a while, but they have worse marketing than GitHub because everyone knows GitHub :)