I also disagree with the tone of that tweet, but your dismissal is equally shallow and gear-grinding.
There are real, serious, and genuinely interesting issues to be discussed regarding Copilot. It is neither "just selling code that other people wrote", nor is it something that we should applaud merely because it demonstrates "human ingenuity".
The comments here regarding this are honestly a total dumpster fire. It's mostly a bunch of paper-thin hot takes, either:
- The blatantly stupid "you willingly shared your code so why are you complaining that one of the world's biggest companies is now hoovering up code from your carefully-selected open-source license and reselling it as a service!!!"
- The blatantly lying "I have literally never looked at any other computer software while developing any obviously anybody who has ever seen other source code is a plagarist"
It's dumb because there is an actual interesting discussion here but I guess we're not going to bother having it.
I actually didn't intend for my comment to be an argument in favour or against, and I am a bit surprised it is the most upvoted of the section.
I agree that there's a pretty interesting discussion to fair-use and the limits of copyright, and that my original comment was not conducive to having that discussion. In my defense, neither was the tweet this thread is about!
There are real, serious, and genuinely interesting issues to be discussed regarding Copilot. It is neither "just selling code that other people wrote", nor is it something that we should applaud merely because it demonstrates "human ingenuity".
The comments here regarding this are honestly a total dumpster fire. It's mostly a bunch of paper-thin hot takes, either:
- The blatantly stupid "you willingly shared your code so why are you complaining that one of the world's biggest companies is now hoovering up code from your carefully-selected open-source license and reselling it as a service!!!"
- The blatantly lying "I have literally never looked at any other computer software while developing any obviously anybody who has ever seen other source code is a plagarist"
It's dumb because there is an actual interesting discussion here but I guess we're not going to bother having it.