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It's also very easy to invent supposed "intellectual property" rights out of thin air that conveniently last for a century or more (!) for your own work.

But instead of either of these views that focus on selfishness, it's much more productive to instead think about what benefits society as a whole.




Microsoft has been one of the most aggressive enforcers of intellectual property rights ever known, and it can be easily argued that their stranglehold retarded the development of computing and the internet as a whole.

It's so bizarre to see these prima facie bad arguments being used by someone who isn't being paid by Microsoft to make them. If Microsoft puts all of their code in, requires anyone who uses copilot to share their code with the algorithm, and allows anyone to run the model on their own platform complete with updates, you'll see all of the FOSS objections dry up in an instant.




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