> Thanks to Microsoft abusing their position with GitHub to perform the legally questionable act of stealing billions of lines of GPL code

I think this a strawman?

But it's pretty ridiculous if anyone believes this.

FOSS code can't be "stolen." The whole point of GPL and free software movement is that software should be free to use and modify.

FOSS code can absolutely be stolen, if it's usage is in violation of the contract that it is shared under. In the case of the GPL, that means granting your users the same freedoms you were granted, which last I checked "Open"AI absolutely is not doing.