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> Just as GitHub was founded on Git, today we are re-founded on Copilot. 
See how GitHub’s AI-powered platform vision evolved into a new reality for the world’s developers, and find out everything we announced at this year’s #GitHubUniverse.
https://nitter.net/github/status/1722309261680607674?s=20
For years I've been saying that using Microsoft GitHub to host #FLOSS code is dangerous and would backfire. 
"But it's so convenient!" 
@rysiek I remember when I told few of my friends that I don't trust GitHub under Microsoft. They laughed it off and asked what would happen? I told them two things:
1. Microsoft does not love open source. Microsoft loves outsourcing via permissive licensing.
2. Microsoft will fuck you over once the opportunity manifests.
Now let's hope legal actions will render this tech incomercializable.
@PiTau @rysiek @dalias I'm not sure this really qualifies as "fuck you over"? The platform you rely on is still there and functioning as before.
I think this is more of the general disdain for IP rights that the whole AI industry runs on. Not saying it's good, it's not, but your code is part of someones AI offering if it's public on the internet.
@Paxxi @rysiek @dalias GPL places some restrictions to combat close sourcing ones code. People use GPL to guard their work from freeloading closed source projects.
In this case copilot seems to be a GPL stripper, hence fucking over everyone using GPL family licenses. Actually any licenses including all rights reserved, because copilot generates public domain code.
@dalias yup.
Thing is, I would have much less problem with all this if not for the fact that independent DJs were slapped hard for sampling musing ~20 years ago:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Good_Copy_Bad_Copy
So if you're a small-time DJ sampling 1s of some song in a way that it's not recognizable, you are a Criminal Enterprise. But if you're Microsoft taking *all of the FLOSS code* and regurgitating it, sometimes byte-for-byte, that's fine and dandy? Fuck that.
This is is system wrecking. AI is theft. Letting the rich profit off the stuff they stole from us, are stealing, is system ending.
Counterfeit money systems, intellectual property theft, bit$ and AI, the rich shouldn't need such break and entre tools, crime systems, to stay on top, in control, so whats happening?
These are trust removing, every system needs acceptance to operate. These crime tools, trillion dollar crime tools, are ending trust.
@kevinrns @rysiek @dalias @PiTau @Paxxi
that list of components is also empowering 'crime as a service' industries, example:
https://thehackernews.com/2023/11/experts-expose-farnetworks-ransomware.html?m=1
edit: adding example on the 'AI' front: https://interestingengineering.com/culture/wormgpt-dark-webs-new-ai-weapon-for-cyberattacks
@Cabadobedia @rysiek @dalias @PiTau @Paxxi
AI is by existence, theft. There arent criminals with AI, AI is criminal. Rich rich people are stealing so the athorities are confused.
Digit "money" made by wanking a graphics card for hours is counterfeit money, that rich people like, because they use it to add zeros to their wealth.
You can find a hundred movies about the wiley secret agents using counterfeit money as a weapon.
A Xerox machine "printing" cash. But the rich, so . . .