@t0k 1. Why should MS have any interest in private repos?

And I can clone all public GH content, I just should not do that all at once.

2. Programming is not just for fun often nicknamed the copy paste from stackoverflow art. Humans copy paste code all the time.

@Alexmitter

1. It's called industrial #espionage.

But with #Copilot, #Microsoft will get access to codebases that are NOT under #GitHub.

The editor will send them the sources, one file after another.

@t0k

@Shamar 1. There is no need for Microsoft to use such a feature for large scale industrial espionage, they do have around a million easier ways to do such a thing . Do you guys not even try to think before you type? Seriously.

@Alexmitter

How many ways are... fully legal like this?

You literally send them your code! On purpose! I mean... ok it's fooling dumb boys, but it's legal! You can't complain after!

@Shamar With such a thing come similar terms and conditions to both parties as in the hosting of private repos for companies or any kind of servers as a service.
It is not like Microsoft would have any benefit from a large set of random code files, that is less useful then the snippets of Windows source code floating around on the web.

@Alexmitter

Yeah because #Microsoft is unable to automatically relates single files from a large project.

I mean... that would need NLP experts and a lot og expensive hardware! 🤣

Except in those languages that declare the module name at the beginning of each files, at least.

But sure, they "shall do no evil", right? 😇