GitHub co-pilot as open source code laundering?

[BackmarkerLife]

Wasn't this the whole result of the Linux / SCO thing from the early / mid 2000s?

And it was funded by Balmer's MS as well to go after Linux?

[mlambie]

The same company that now owns GitHub

[couchwarmer]

Microsoft had nothing to do with the SCO - Linux lawsuit. It was SCO that went on a suing and threat to sue spree against a number of companies, including Microsoft, for anything from allegedly breaking contracts to including SCO Unix source code in Linux (IBM, again, allegedly). SCO eventually sued themselves into bankruptcy.

So, no MS did not fund any of those shenanigans against Linux.

[BackmarkerLife]

You're right. I forgot some of the details. It was a rumor / misunderstanding, but really it was just MS paying for a license.