A naive developer thinks that they are the source code they write (you're not), and their source code leaking to the world makes them worthless.
Maybe Github isn't violating the licenses of the programmers who host on them. Maybe Copilot doesn't just spit out code that belongs to other people. Those are matters of interpretation and debate.
But if Github was doing this with Copilot, virtually an open source programmer would have a reason to be upset. Open source programmers don't give their code out for free they license it. This is a legal position, not a feeling. "Intellectual property" may be a pox on the world but asking open source developers to abandon their licenses to ... closed source developers, is legitimately a violation.
And before the spitting out source code problem appeared, I recall quite a few positive responses to Copilot. Lots of people still seem excited. And yeah, people are looking at the downside given Microsoft's long abusive history but hey, MS did those thing.
Maybe Github isn't violating the licenses of the programmers who host on them. Maybe Copilot doesn't just spit out code that belongs to other people. Those are matters of interpretation and debate.
But if Github was doing this with Copilot, virtually an open source programmer would have a reason to be upset. Open source programmers don't give their code out for free they license it. This is a legal position, not a feeling. "Intellectual property" may be a pox on the world but asking open source developers to abandon their licenses to ... closed source developers, is legitimately a violation.
And before the spitting out source code problem appeared, I recall quite a few positive responses to Copilot. Lots of people still seem excited. And yeah, people are looking at the downside given Microsoft's long abusive history but hey, MS did those thing.