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I will never understand why people push code to public repos and then complain when someone or something uses that code. Code that you want to keep private or make money off of should be private. Only publish stuff to the public that you want other people to see and learn from. All the complaints about attribution… who cares.

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> All the complaints about attribution… who cares.

I may not care if some guy I've never met uses my niche library without attribution. (I do care, really.) But Microsoft certainly cares if you use their code without attribution, so why shouldn't I take the same belligerent, copyright-enforcing attitude towards them? That's the main reason why people are angry, because MS has "rules for thee but not for me" by virtue of being big enough to have ~~good~~effective lawyers and lobbyists.

Copilot is trained on public repos. Id imagine if Microsoft doesn’t want you to use their code, that code would be in a private repo. There’s nothing stopping me from using code in a public repo, regardless of the license.

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