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Apart from the whole ripping off open source code to make their closed source copilot thing?
Can you elaborate? Don't want to sound like an apologist, just genuinely curious
they use github to train copilot, which sometimes reproduces code without paying attention to the license of the code it's regurgitating.
Makes sense