I hope they lose so that the wishes and legal rights of the people who made GitHub great in the first place remain respected.

GitHub is almost like a social network in the way it relies on "the community". Stealing people's code (who made it great) by regurgitating it through an ML code laundering machine, isn't very fair imho.

I don't think anyone who wishes others not to learn from their code should upload it publically to GitHub.

ah yes, copy 'n pasting (or the ML equivalant) is truly learning.

You can learn from code by just looking at it, working with it (i.e. transforming it into a truly derivative/creative work) there's little value to be had in having some automated program spit out chunks of code (ripped from their original context) that you don't fully understand or without the tool never could have conceived.

Also looking at some publicly available code (to learn) still respects the license, co-pilot possibly doesn't.

You can think what you like.

But Microsoft isn't being sued to stop copilot (which is trash really) it's to stop further development and an AI which will be to programmers what AlphaGo was to human players.

The workforce in the industry is desperate for a way to slow AI down (every industry workforce) and they found a way to try.