Fwiw, I've never paid for Copilot. I was automatically given free access for open source contributions. My largest public repo had maybe 100 stars. I've made minor commits to larger repos.

I don't know what the threshold is, but I'm fine with the trade-off I received.

Then you should be happy to know that there are multiple open source coding weights out there already! Some of which are as good as, or possibly better than co-pilot.

That should satisfy anyone who actually cares about this as opposed to only being interest in making a snappy gotcha one liners.

... because GPU-hours are worthless?

So if a developer uses “free code” in their software, must they only do it for free?