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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 w
by 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 agoif 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 agoI 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 :)