Rebecca Giblin on chokepoint capitalism

> As for the "compulsory participation to Copilot", ISTM they're simply exercising Software Freedom 1: The freedom to study how a program works [using the source code]. You may be thinking "that's not what I meant", but that's a different issue.

Hmmm...

What they are doing, what they think they are doing, what other people think they are doing, and what other people do, are four different realities. I would be completely unsurprised if other people come up with more.

What they ARE doing is provided half-baked dodgy teaching materials, encouraging licence violations, etc etc.

They may say that's not their intention, and I believe them, but - as with the FSF's four freedoms! - actions have consequences, and quite often what happens is not what the originators intended to happen (or maybe it is ...)

Cheers,
Wol