Microsoft has claimed that something like 30% of the code for Windows is AI-generated. (I have not verified that they even said that, maybe that’s totally fake.) Last i checked AI-generated stuff cannot be copyrighted. Does this mean that significant portions of Windows are un-copyrightable, and MacroSlop couldn’t do a damn thing if someone leaked those parts?
And then, reservations about including slop in a software project aside, what could this mean for things like ReactOS? They’ve been careful to avoid including any MS-owned code, but nobody owns slop code.
Even if it can’t be copyrighted anymore, it’s still under trademark. And it’s a shit OS, so why bother rebranding a forked version?
Doesn’t trademark just protect the name “Microsoft Windows®” and slogans (“Just Bing it®”)?
And yeah, i don’t think anyone who knows enough about computers to make an operating system wants to just fork Windows. I’m more curious about how much MS could be hurting themselves by having a robot write important code.