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It's very easy to be generous with other people's property, intellectual or otherwise.
by marginalia_nu 4y ago
It's very easy to be generous with other people's property, intellectual or otherwise.
- crazygringo 4y agoIt's also very easy to invent supposed "intellectual property" rights out of thin air that conveniently last for a century or more (!) for your own work. But instead of either of these views that focus on selfishness, it's much more productive to instead think about what benefits society as a whole.
- pessimizer 4y agoMicrosoft has been one of the most aggressive enforcers of intellectual property rights ever known, and it can be easily argued that their stranglehold retarded the development of computing and the internet as a whole. It's so bizarre to see these prima facie bad arguments being used by someone who isn't being paid by Microsoft to make them. If Microsoft puts all of their code in, requires anyone who uses copilot to share their code with the algorithm, and allows anyone to run the model on their own platform complete with updates, you'll see all of the FOSS objections dry up in an instant.
- sebzim4500 4y agoIt's also pretty easy to be generous with your own when it comes to copilot. I have not been damaged in any way by copilot learning from my code, and no one else has either.
- pessimizer 4y agoI'm sure that once you've informed everyone involved that you've declared this to be true, they'll call off the lawsuits and apologize.