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You're right. This is just "SaaS", "cloud APIs" approach turned to 11 - making some thing unavailable to everyone unless they agree to agree with any conditions you come up in the future. For example, if Github Copilot becomes genuinely and uniquely very useful, that's bad for the software development industry over the entire world: it means that every single software dev company will have to pay "tax" to Microsoft.