Reminder That Microsoft's GitHub Copilot is Run by a Criminal With Many Female Victims

Dr. Roy Schestowitz

2022-09-30 07:04:40 UTC
Modified: 2022-09-30 07:04:40 UTC

Also a drug dealer, serial plagiarist, chronic strangler, and worse (more on that later this year and next year)

MeToo Alex Graveley

Summary: The person who started and led Microsoft's GitHub Copilot is basically a criminal who attacks his own partners (at least 3 that we know of); why is the Open Source Initiative helping him? Because Microsoft pays for it.

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