There is a kind of precedent for this actually, back in the 90s when Microsoft got dinged for bundling internet explorer with Windows. This feels like it’s basically the same thing.

And that changed so much…

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.

Microsoft is an ethical company now

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

Can you elaborate? Don’t want to sound like an apologist, just genuinely curious

they use github to train copilot, which sometimes reproduces code without paying attention to the license of the code it’s regurgitating.