Lee Duna@lemmy.nz to Technology@beehaw.orgEnglish · 11 months agoMicrosoft completes Activision Blizzard acquisition, Call of Duty now part of Xboxwww.theverge.comexternal-linkmessage-square38fedilinkarrow-up180arrow-down10cross-posted to: [email protected]
arrow-up180arrow-down1external-linkMicrosoft completes Activision Blizzard acquisition, Call of Duty now part of Xboxwww.theverge.comLee Duna@lemmy.nz to Technology@beehaw.orgEnglish · 11 months agomessage-square38fedilinkcross-posted to: [email protected]
minus-squaredan@upvote.aulinkfedilinkarrow-up3·11 months ago They also use GitHub to hover up code and resell it as AI Microsoft’s not the only company doing this. Pretty much all code-focused AI models are based on Github data. Remember: embrace, expand, extinguish… This may have been common in the 90s, but I’m not sure it’s still relevant. Do you have any examples of Microsoft doing this in the past 10 years?
minus-squareChinzon@beehaw.orglinkfedilinkarrow-up2·11 months agoRegardless at the end of the day microsoft is a business. By that fact alone their decisions are dependent on what is best for the company. If and when this deviates from what is best for the consumers, we will learn to regret the acquisition
Microsoft’s not the only company doing this. Pretty much all code-focused AI models are based on Github data.
This may have been common in the 90s, but I’m not sure it’s still relevant. Do you have any examples of Microsoft doing this in the past 10 years?
Regardless at the end of the day microsoft is a business. By that fact alone their decisions are dependent on what is best for the company. If and when this deviates from what is best for the consumers, we will learn to regret the acquisition