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		Trollmann on June 29, 2021 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: GitHub Copilot Will this hurt open source? I assume companies that were fine with providing you functionality for free may think about this twice because with that they're giving away knowledge of how to build functionality.

goodpoint on June 30, 2021 [–]

Yes. It will encourage using FOSS as a source of "examples" to use it in closed source.

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