Fully agreed. It's just people getting mad and jealous but hear me out.
Copilot is NOT SELLING coed other people wrote, it is simply acting as a curator to show you all the solutions people HAVE WRITTEN for free.
Copilot does NOT write entire programs, it's simply an assistant. And there is not much copyright you CAN apply to 3-4 lines of generally understandable code.
I've used Copilot and am actively paying for and I have not seen many cases where it's generating bad code. It's only there to remove boilerplate and common problems, not there to write entire applications.
Thanks. Personally, I feel like such small and widely used mathematical algorithms should not be copyrightable (or using them should fall under fair use). It even has its own Wikipedia page[0], where the source code is also reproduced without copyright notice.
% Constants
FISRCON GREG #5FE6EB50C7B537A9
THREHAF GREG #3FF8000000000000
% Save half of the original number
OR $2,$0,0
INCH $2,#FFF0
% Bit level hacking
SRU $1,$0,1
SUBU $0,FISRCON,$1
% First iteration
FMUL $1,$2,$0
FMUL $1,$1,$0
FSUB $1,THREHAF,$1
FMUL $0,$0,$1
% Second iteration
FMUL $1,$2,$0
FMUL $1,$1,$0
FSUB $1,THREHAF,$1
FMUL $0,$0,$1
(Note this assumes that the input number is not too small; if it is, then it will not be possible to compute half by this algorithm. Also, like with the original code, the second iteration may be omitted if desired.)
(This comment and the MMIX code it contains, and all other comments that I wrote on here, are I agree release it to public domain.)
Agree man! Lockdown was just really unjustified on society.
It made no sense for such a minor disease which I'm sure would have been dismissed as flu 60 years ago.
I don't know what caused this overreaction, sure for 30-40 days but this thing has devastated billions of lives, left millions jobless and ruined an entire generation.
It's sometimes necessary to have pandemics and diseases like this to control the population of society.
Europe practically had a renaissance after the black death.
