It seems like the most fair way to go would be for Copilot to be completely open sourced and hosted on GitHub. That way they’d be subject to the same terms/conditions they are imposing on everyone else’s code/repos.
I personally also had a very frustrating experience with the CARES act, specifically PPP loans. Applied as soon as they came out, directly with the SBA first, then with 3 different banks. Still waiting :(
However, at the end of the day, businesses are not what's essential, people are.
And that's why it's so infuriating that the government has acted pretty much exactly on the opposite view. It has prioritized saving huge businesses and propping up the public markets (stock/bonds/futures/etc).
In my opinion, it would have been a lot more effective to give money directly to people, then let them figure out where and how they need to spend it to get through the crisis. Businesses would then adapt accordingly to survive, or fail if they couldn't. But at least then most people would be ok.
Now inequality is going to be worse than ever. People that already had a lot of money got saved and now they can keep making loads of money, while the people that really needed saving, pretty much got abandoned instead.