> Copilot should be inspiring people to figure out how to do better than it, not making hackers get up in arms trying to slap it down.
One of the (many) problems is that GitHub/Microsoft already benefit from runaway network effects so it’s difficult to “do better”. Where will you get all of that training code if not off GitHub?
The real answer to this is to yank your projects from GitHub now while you search for alternatives.
Even if you do that, what's to stop them from using open source software from all over the web and not just what's on GitHub? The only way to stop them then is to go closed source.
I mean stop them at a larger level by threatening their success as an organization. If developers stop publishing to GitHub they have bigger problems than training ML models.
Whether or not this move is “legal”, it should serve as a wake up call that GH is not actually a service we should be empowering. This incident is just one example of why that’s a bad idea.
One of the (many) problems is that GitHub/Microsoft already benefit from runaway network effects so it’s difficult to “do better”. Where will you get all of that training code if not off GitHub?
The real answer to this is to yank your projects from GitHub now while you search for alternatives.