Both are driven by vast amount of data processing that can't be done locally both because you don't have the horsepower and you don't have the bandwidth or pragmatic data access to terabytes of source code.
So instead of vacuous appeals to emotion, it's better to justify our opinions with objective reasons other than "but I want to have this". We all want things, but we're not entitled to them.
Aside from the fact Copilot literally can only be offered as a service due to its nature (unless you want to sound like one of those jokes where "you downloaded the internet to your USB stick"), everyone is free to offer a service precisely how they decide.
They're not obligated to give you anything they don't want to. They don't have to listen to you, or FSF, or anyone else about what they consider, arbitrarily, an "absolute disgrace". You use it or you don't use it. Simple as that.
P.S.: I consider it an absolute disgrace ice-cream is not free but this argument never seems to works in practice.
No, it's not. The discussion that we're having is over whether this is permissible or not, and the lobbying that groups such as the FSF are doing is in support of a different set of rules to be enforced.
None of this is simple.
