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MS being a rich org is well equiped to fight this legal battler however they want. They don't need our sympathy. We also don't need MS version of AI coder. Even
by 627467 4y ago
MS being a rich org is well equiped to fight this legal battler however they want. They don't need our sympathy. We also don't need MS version of AI coder. Even if they have been legally dissuaded to create co-pilot, someone else would.
The issue I'm more bothered with is: the actual cost of copyright/license enforcement. Do we as society really want/need to be accepting and sustaining these costs? The time wasted?
I don't buy the argument that without strong IP laws no good code will be shared publicly: great code is already shared via VERY permissive licenses (and not so permissive ones and yet _stolen_ without others knowledge). Entire enterprises exists adding to the shared corpus of code.
Also, look at other industries where ideas are copied/remixed without attribution all the time: fashion. It never dissuaded new fashion designers or companies to be formed.
- baby 4y ago+1. Imo we need to get rid of licenses once and for all. If you don’t want your code to be used, then don’t open source it. Simple.
- account42 4y agoOk as long as we can also freely copy all other works, including Microsoft's.
- 627467 4y agoIf you can learn of it I don't see why not.
- iostream25 4y ago
- dang 4y agoWhoa, you can't post this aggressively to HN, regardless of how wrong someone is or you feel they are. We're trying for something different here, so we have to ban accounts that post like this. If you'd please review https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and stick to the rules when posting here, we'd appreciate it. Edit: since you've been using multiple accounts to do this, I've banned this one. Please don't create accounts to break HN's rules with.
- Timwi 4y agoThe correct solution to this is to make closed-source software illegal. If everyone has full access to all code, then it's not possible to plagiarize in secret. It's open for everyone to see and to call out. Then you don't need software licenses anymore.