> GPL: "Our General Public Licenses are designed to make sure that you have the freedom to distribute copies of free software (and charge for them if you wish)".
Yes but if I use copilot in a private codebase how sure am I that it has not copied GPL code.
MS and Github are thieves, all their code is closed source, yet they sell copyrighted code they don't own. If they told us years ago that our code will be automatically stolen by an "AI", most coders would not have created an account. The innovation here is that they have access to most of the worlds open source code and automated the stealing.
On the one hand I don't want lawyers, government and politicians to shape cyberspace. But I also like this ruling it seems to set a precedent for users to be able to opt-in to APIs (and probably javascript the obvious next step if this goes on). Client-server interactions should be transparent, this will prevent allot of privacy related issues. It also makes the web more decentralized, getting developers back into a host your own stuff mentality.
As soon as one miner goes down another one will come up because it is profitable, yes maybe they can stop it in the US, but at this point the network effect and momentum is too strong, allot of money is invested in it. The FBI would have to trap over so many people and entities around the world to stop it.
I think the only way to stop bitcoin is economically, like say Satoshi appears destabilizing the market.
We should be careful of imposing irl laws on the net because this will only bring the problems of irl to the net. On the net one can have multiple identities, each with varying characteristics and this is a feature of the net. Reputation is for irl, the net works on merits because of limitless identies... if you mess up you can start over again.
This is absolutely disgusting, they should be ashamed to call themselves free software, they are violating the License and the principles of Free software, which is meant for the end user and not for corporations and governments. People living in oppressive regimes benefit more from free software than any other. If they can do this the License means nothing to them, they are just leeching of the work of free software developers, We should all boycott them for violating the License.
> Privacy is something that people usually only care about on a theoretical level. Practically speaking, they're often happy to not care so much at all if they get something more tangible in return.
Because not everyone is a Programmer. Most people I know have never even heard about Snowden.