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The ship has sailed and the cat is out of the bag. By the time any of this shakes out everyone will be using copilot and the lawyers will have ground any argume
by datavirtue 4y ago
The ship has sailed and the cat is out of the bag. By the time any of this shakes out everyone will be using copilot and the lawyers will have ground any argument into dust. Good luck putting it back in the bag.
After you have cleaned everything off of GitHub and separated yourself from the ecosystem it (AI bots) will be everywhere and your code gobbled up again.
The only thing that is worth a fuck is a working product. Not your boilerplate or fancy snippets that you want to claim ownership over so as to stop the evil Microsoft from benefitting the community.
Are we devs or luddites?
- phendrenad2 4y agoI think it's very common for developers to overestimate the value of their own code. You see this in the video game community, where people are afraid to open-source their Minecraft plugin because they think it'll be "stolen". They choose the future where nobody builds on their plugin (and no amount of attribution will ever feel like enough, so there's some level of "theft" felt by the original author). Most open-source projects are not valuable, and even if they are popular, they could be easily replaced in a few days by another programmer. And usually the license doesn't matter, because nobody forks the project anyway, all development is done in a central repository and the project owner signs off on all of it