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> Over time, this process will starve these communities. User attention and engagement will be shifted into the walled garden of Copilot and away from th
by ja3k 4y ago
> Over time, this process will starve these communities. User attention and engagement will be shifted into the walled garden of Copilot and away from the open-source projects themselves
The author seems to be implying that since Copilot can reproduce the code of open source repository X in certain scenarios there'd be no reason for programmers to learn/use/engage with repository X. But this is silly. Maybe some open source repositories could be tab completed with a little prompting but people will presumably choose to add a dependency instead of tab completing the code of express or something.
- cercatrova 4y agoIt also doesn't make any sense. Copilot suggesting to me the signature of a function from some library is not actually the same as executing that library. That library still needs to be downloaded onto my computer to be executed. And who will write new features to a library if not for the people who are interested in that?
- remram 4y agoOpen-source licenses have terms that apply to the source code, not "execution", so I really don't understand your point?
- cowtools 4y agoIt strips GPL, or any license.
- bigiain 4y agoIt strips the (mandatory, in a lot of cases) licence text. But the licence still applies. (Or I guess more technically, the original authors copyright still applies, and the rights granted to use the work under the license as an exception to the strict limitation under copyright - do not apply...)