• dan@upvote.au
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    1 year ago

    They also use GitHub to hover up code and resell it as AI

    Microsoft’s not the only company doing this. Pretty much all code-focused AI models are based on Github data.

    Remember: embrace, expand, extinguish…

    This may have been common in the 90s, but I’m not sure it’s still relevant. Do you have any examples of Microsoft doing this in the past 10 years?

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      1 year ago

      Regardless at the end of the day microsoft is a business. By that fact alone their decisions are dependent on what is best for the company. If and when this deviates from what is best for the consumers, we will learn to regret the acquisition