Feel like such projects would benefit tremendously from agentic coding

What if the agents were trained by leaked Microsoft code?

With the way the courts seem to judge LLM outputs, I don't think that's an issue as long as it's provable that the code was shat out by an LLM.

Of course Microsoft could still claim that someone used a leaked Windows build as the source so any LLM use would be a ticking time bomb.

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p0w3n3d an hour ago | parent | next [-]

That creates a loop hole. Take code, feed LLM and let it spew it again - voilà - you have perfectly legal code. Just fix bugs

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Kwpolska 5 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Is this defense even viable if the Windows XP source code has been leaked and openly shared online, and you can find many copies of it on GitHub?

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jeroenhd 5 hours ago | parent [-]

There's definitely irony in that Microsoft's GitHub is hosting the leaked source code (which probably got sucked into Copilot and every other AI under the sun as a result).

However, I don't think copyright lawyers will care. "They're also committing a crime" doesn't mean you're free to do what you want. That applies especially in ReactOS vs MS, because if ReactOS succeeds, it will compete directly with Microsoft.

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		> "They're also committing a crime" But Microsoft has the rights to the code, so they do not commit a crime by broadcasting it.