But Microsoft has had a wall of lawyers for a long time. Microsoft's potential first-party GPL violations would have been defended by their lawyers for decades now.
This take seems to be stretching for a Microsoft bad interpretation.
Very much. I'm ok with Microsoft haters, provided that they are clear about their bias with themselves and others. They're not, though.
There is no chance that every negative comment on this site about Microsoft is unbiased. None.
Copilot is a useful tool for "license-washing" code.
So then it supports the sharing of code for anyone to use freely, which is the opposite of the "extinguish" strategy that microsoft did in the past.
> would you be OK with Microsoft effectively stealing that protected work
I think that copyright protections are way way to strong and I support making almost all of them useless and I support allowing people to side step copyright protections.
This is because I want more creative works to be freely useable by everyone. Especially for AI purposes, which is a highly transformative and powerful usecase.
