Copilot wouldn't be shut down or neutered because "a few vocal people" protested against it.
It would be because it's illegal and violates the licenses, desires, and intentions of the thousands of workers who wrote the code in its corpus.
You act like Microsoft is trying to do a public service and people are angry about it. The reality is that they're taking billions of hours of work and using it to build a product that only they control.
If they re-released Copilot as FOSS, a lot of the valid criticisms would evaporate.
It would be because it's illegal and violates the licenses, desires, and intentions of the thousands of workers who wrote the code in its corpus.
You act like Microsoft is trying to do a public service and people are angry about it. The reality is that they're taking billions of hours of work and using it to build a product that only they control.
If they re-released Copilot as FOSS, a lot of the valid criticisms would evaporate.