I totally agree, this reaction seems very hypocritical. If some rinky dink startup did exactly the same thing - as they are entitled to do under the licences of huge swathes of code on GitHub - hardly anyone would bat an eyelid. But just because it’s a Microsoft-owned company, it’s somehow verboten?
That seems totally inconsistent with decades of people clamouring for more openness/liberty when it comes to IP rights.
Regardless of the size of the offender, if you're not respecting the terms of a license, you'll get pushback. It's natural.
If you're a company which executes Embrace Extend Extinguish on any technology you like yet don't own, you'll get quadruple amounts of pushback. That's normal too.
Microsoft isn't saint, and copilot is breaking a lot of legal, ethical and moral rules. It's doubly-natural to give reaction to this.
That seems totally inconsistent with decades of people clamouring for more openness/liberty when it comes to IP rights.