The #MicroSoft #Copilot Terms of Service are no indication of a lack of confidence.
It’s a sign that the inventors of the #EULA have finally reached the peak of their skills. “The products we profit off of have no guarantee of working.”
The #MicroSoft #Copilot Terms of Service are no indication of a lack of confidence.
It’s a sign that the inventors of the #EULA have finally reached the peak of their skills. “The products we profit off of have no guarantee of working.”
人間が綴り,描いた物語と,AI生成された物語が並行する異色のビジュアルノベル「EULA」,6月26日にSteamでリリース
https://www.4gamer.net/games/995/G099592/20260402047/
New story drop! “Terms and Conditions” is live!!
Come for Harvestide, stay for the part where everyone realizes they probably should’ve read page 37...
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1voXtGy74ZBHt50_X7YdaPdB2vHx3fmp3YJQ47v8mIRg/edit?usp=sharing

Terms and Conditions Written by: Kathleen Fitzgerald (The Unfrosted Files: Book 13) (Book 12 - here) March, 2026 Arrivals Popolis International Airport — POP, as every sign helpfully reminded you - was busy in the particular way it always was at the start of Harvestide. Not frantic. Not rushed. ...
The 2000s were also the heyday of noteworthy freeware games and sites such as GameHippo, and buying a copy of a digital work then—often on a CD—actually meant owning it and doing whatever (copyright) law permitted. No streaming disservices or prerequisites. Even pre-Microsoft Minecraft, in retrospect, was a relief from signing expansive EULA agreements and possibly trading off privacy for the product. Those days are worth returning to.
There is a silver lining to the whole #python #chardet debacle. If it is legal to throw a pile of code at an LLM, and tell it to write a new version of that code that is not a derivative then that gives us a lot of options too.
GPL compatible #ZFS? no problem! #ReactOS from the leaked NT/2k sources? No problem!
Maybe this is a golden age for the collapse of proprietary software after all. If they can do an end run around the #GPL we can do an end run around the #EULA.