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Background:GitHub is the defacto repository for open-source code in the world.
Sure, theres other options.
But switching from one code-repository ecosystem to another isnt the same as trading Instagram for TikTok.
Microsoft acquired GitHub in 2018 for more than seven billion dollars.
And the only way to get access to Copilot is through a special invitation from Microsoft or paid subscription.
A solution:Kill Copilot.
And theres a bit of precedent here.
GPT-3 and Dall-E use databases of human-generated media to generate novel outputs.
But theres a key difference between those generators and Copilot.
Its probably a bit more nuanced than that.
There is, of course, sometimes more than one way to solve a coding problem.
And coding is often as much art as it is science.
At the end of the day it doesnt matter.
Copilot is a hit.
The dev community seems to absolutely love it.
Its gotten more positive press than any amount of naysaying is likely to affect.
Never mind what itll eventually do to the open source community.
Who needs open source repositories when you might just work for free to make money for Microsoft?
The best thing is, you dont get a choice.
Theres no opting in or out.
Microsoft and OpenAI have your data and theres nothing stopping them from doing whatever they want with it.
