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It should be free, or at least significantly cheaper. It was trained on millions of person-days of work people shared for free. This is _our_ work being sold ba
by the_other 4y ago
It should be free, or at least significantly cheaper. It was trained on millions of person-days of work people shared for free. This is _our_ work being sold back to us.
(ok, not really mine, I don't contribute to OSS very much; I should probably pay for it.. but you get my point).
- cal85 4y agoAs an OSS contributor I'd love it if GitHub decided to share their profits with me, but I did knowingly contribute my work under free software licences so I don't see myself as having any moral or legal right to that. (If they've trained it on private repos that's another matter, I am assuming they haven't.) Either way, I don't think it's a strong argument to say it's our work being sold back to us. Whatever it is that makes people pay for Copilot, it can't just be the OSS code that it was trained on, as that is all still freely available online. People must be paying for the part that GitHub has trained/built, the part that reads your codebase and makes good suggestions.