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It actually did - Microsoft is an ethical company now, they’ve done a great job with GitHub for example and also more successful than they ever were in the bad old days when they terrorised the industry.

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RogueBanana@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
Is this sarcasm? I really can’t tell.

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Crozekiel@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
Super ethical… Just bundling a ton of Spyware in with windows and trying to lock down your hardware into their ecosystem even though it didn’t come from them… 🙄

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RobotToaster@mander.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

Microsoft is an ethical company now

Apart from the whole ripping off open source code to make their closed source copilot thing?

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- Capricorn_Geriatric@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  Can you elaborate? Don’t want to sound like an apologist, just genuinely curious
  
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  - vrighter@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
    they use github to train copilot, which sometimes reproduces code without paying attention to the license of the code it’s regurgitating.
    
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    Capricorn_Geriatric@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
    Makes sense
    
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