> In cases like this, the benefits of the technology are so huge, and the downsides to the original code author so tiny. Benefits to whom? I don't recall Micro

> In cases like this, the benefits of the technology are so huge, and the downsides to the original code author so tiny. Benefits to whom? I don't recall Microsoft making this technology free for OSS development. Suppose you're right and 5 years from now everyone is using co-pilot. To remain competitive with proprietary software, OSS developers will have to use it also but they will still be paying Microsoft $10/month for the privilege. Meanwhile none of them were compensated for making this possible in the first place.