Why is this noteworthy? Who is this person? Am I missing something?
I agree that there needs to be talk about licensing and copyright but with so "less/no content" there can be no meaningful discussion other than aimless banter.
I agree that there needs to be talk about licensing and copyright but with so "less/no content" there can be no meaningful discussion other than aimless banter.
And their only huge project on GitHub is dbxfs, a userspace dropbox filesystem with 687 stars https://github.com/rianhunter?tab=repositories&q=&type=&lang...
I think this is just a post meant to continue the discussion of CoPilot past the first 2 days of news.
One of the beautiful things about HN is that you don't need to be anything, you just have to have something interesting to say.
It's just posted(not by the guy that made the page, mind you) to farm karma, exploit the news cycle and carve out some more space for discussion of this tired topic.
> It's just posted(not by the guy that made the page, mind you)
Others would complain if the author himself had posted this.
Sometimes we've seen it but it is a new angle.
If he had a good argument for that, fine. But without that he really needs to be someone whose opinion I care about.
> What is there that is not solid, CoPilot is using community code that is under GPL licence therefore Microsoft should not be able to charge for CoPilot but give it for free, or not create another revenue stream.
You're doing the same thing as OP by assuming that this is illegal. That had yet to be determined. It could easily be the case that this falls under some fair use law or isn't even covered by copyright. It isn't for humans!
Fair use can be drill down to following, a very simple exploit question.
Would you work for free, if someone would earn million on your own work?
if (answer===yes) {
"then let me employ you I have few ideas and I need free work that could make me wealthy."
} else {
"if no then your entire argument is pure hypocrisy, trying to justify wealth built on exploit of others" }
The topic is a current one [1], which makes it even more valuable.
Why is this comment noteworthy? Who is this person? Am I missing something?