My thoughts on the co-pilot thing remain as vague as ever but I made something of a connection reading this:
> GPL violations by soulless corporations stealing the hard work of independent programmers and assimilating it into their own proprietary software
"stealing"? Where's it gone? It vanished!? It's been erased from the internet?
Why do we play these semantic artificial scarcity games with code that has deliberately been made publicly accessible? If I read your code and copy it to a file on my computer it hasn't been destroyed, it hasn't gone anywhere. If my computer reads the code it hasn't vanished into the ether.
I don't pirate films/games/TV/books but I think open source code is an entirely different beast to the former.
> GPL violations by soulless corporations stealing the hard work of independent programmers and assimilating it into their own proprietary software
"stealing"? Where's it gone? It vanished!? It's been erased from the internet?
Why do we play these semantic artificial scarcity games with code that has deliberately been made publicly accessible? If I read your code and copy it to a file on my computer it hasn't been destroyed, it hasn't gone anywhere. If my computer reads the code it hasn't vanished into the ether.
I don't pirate films/games/TV/books but I think open source code is an entirely different beast to the former.