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[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Microsoft is an ethical company now

Apart from the whole ripping off open source code to make their closed source copilot thing?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Can you elaborate? Don't want to sound like an apologist, just genuinely curious

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

they use github to train copilot, which sometimes reproduces code without paying attention to the license of the code it's regurgitating.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago