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[–] RobotToaster@mander.xyz 6 points 10 months ago (3 children)

Microsoft is an ethical company now

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

[–] Capricorn_Geriatric@lemm.ee 3 points 10 months ago (2 children)

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

[–] vrighter@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 10 months 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.

[–] Capricorn_Geriatric@lemm.ee 1 points 10 months ago