alt Hacker News> Microsoft software since the 2014, for the most part, is also paraphrased from other people's code they find laying around online.
That was pretty funny and explains a lot.
I wish I could do more :(
Instead I always break things when I paraphrase code without the GeniusParaphrasingTool
This is exactly why I moved to self hosted code in 2017.
While I couldn’t have predicted the future, even classic data mining posed a risk.
It is just reality that if you give a third party access to your data, you should expect them to use it.
It is just too tempting of a value stream and legislation just isn’t there to avoid the EULA trap.
I was targeting a market where fractions of a percentage advantage were important which did drive my what at the time was labeled paranoia