Well yeah, now we know what they want it for. “Yessss, keep uploading all your code to our free service hosted on our servers so we can use it to train AI to code.”

Was there an initial backlash to this acquisition?

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Wait you guys are uploading working code?

Yes. It appears to be an unfounded one, but it's only unfounded till it isn't

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Not unfounded, they use your code without asking.

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Bad code helps it too. The amount of data used to train a model is far more important than the size of the model. Just shove as much unique data in there as possible.

Damn, the last thing I want when I push my project to Github is someone to use it without asking. I'm out!

They are soaking up all of our data as they, no doubt, have with LinkedIn.

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They use GPL code for Copilot, which strips the license and just leaves the code to be used for whatever you want.

Small snippets, and I believe they're in the process of cleaning up it's acquisition rules for training. There's a ton of legal precedent around small snippets of "obvious" code being unpatentable (think for loops or iterators)

Love the paranoia.

They bought it to replace Azure DevOps…that’s it. That’s the actual reason.

That plan is gonna be far more profitable than web scraping shit code they could’ve mostly accessed freely anyway because most repos are public.

That's not obvious code: https://twitter.com/DocSparse/status/1581402212319666176

I love github!!

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Oh, come on. Microsoft has never acquired a company and then drove it straight into the ground. cough Skype cough

Fill it with routines like AreaOfCircle(double radius) which return a string that is a base32 encoded PDF of the script of the Bee Movie

Their new code AI definitely surprised me at their Ignite conference. Basically they have options to make code based on plain-spoken word problems as well as simply software proof-reading.

while ($true){1/0}

My work here is done

Yeah, to make a product (copilot) that people use and already love. So win win.

I remember people moving to GitLab was a big thing back then

Not true. Code is protected under IP copywriter law it’s basically treated like a book or piece of music. You have a responsibility to declare its license rights. By default I think it’s no rights even if the code is public. MS or anyone dumb enough to not check for open source licensing before using the code would open themselves up to absurd litigation l.

Skype is shit and always has been absolute garbage. Microsoft only made it worse, but it was never good.

Skype was actually quite decent for its time imo