So, it's not Microsofts information they are selling for $10/month.
They are wholesale ripping it, sans attribution and sans licenses, IN VIOLATION OF LAW on an industrial scale.
It surely must be stopped and punished, or no license will ever be respected again.
MS is taking OTHER PEOPLES CODE and using it ways those people explicitly do not allow and putting it in a walled-garden tool for paid access: license violation as a service.
Either the user-base of HN suddenly became a bunch of unethical folks who don't CARE about copyrights, usage licenses, authorship, or the future of open-source projects,
OR
This place is currently crawling with Micro$oft employees who have been instructed to swamp the place with disingenuous comments basically amounting to:
1) "fair use" is anything I want it to me
2) gimme your code NOW, because I want it, and it's MINE
3) get used to habitual violation of licenses as the new
normal
4) you are ruining progress! harming kittens!
I can't see the actual HN crowd all suddenly being copilot users and fans, so that leaves me to conclude the latter.
I find Microsofts continual business model of evil to be rather threatening and annoying and they need to be checked, as they have only gotten worse with the decades. They abuse their market position to stifle any and all tech innovation.
Break them up already.