Well, there are a lot of problems with GitHub. Here, we will mainly focus on a feature called Copilot, but if you’re interested to learn more about the others, please visit this page.
It is a laundering scheme that steals code written by real programmers (human or otherwise). It differs from a typical programmer or artist that draws upon inspiration from a multitude of sources in a number of ways: it doesn't actually understand the code that it's stealing (and is therefore necessarily dependant on the original author), doesn't compensate the original author for their work or creativity, and only "contributes" by assisting those who already sit upon wrongfully amassed capital (Copilot refuses to assist marginalized groups, including those whose code contributed to Copilot). This is a violation of both the license terms and the intellectual proprety of the authors of the original code.
We are tired of this abuse and we want to stop it right now! Microsoft has been attacking licensing over the years. In short, we would like to protect our work and the future of all things that are good.
The issue is bigger than it seems. Even if a project is not hosted on GitHub, other people have the capability to wrongfully redistribute the source code. It means that they have the power to share the code of others on GitHub. Once on GitHub, Copilot will be able to copy the code and violate the license terms, which is totally wrong.
This is why we tell you, as other developers, to not upload our code to GitHub, and to do everything in your power to bring GitHub to justice for their actions.
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