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• @tjc@weirder.earth 2026-10-13 16:12

  @simrob@social.wub.site We’ve certainly been providing free labor to monopolists forever, but the whole FSF deal (not that I respect the FSF) was the vision of being able to read and learn from other people’s code and build your own things on top of it. They were anti-gatekeeping, at least in theory. But now, the widespread belief that it’s immoral or “inefficient” (same thing under capitalism, I guess) to write code without paying for a probabilistic automation product means that few people even have the option of building software without gatekeepers in the loop. There’s plenty to be critical of in the FSF ideology, but if you took it on face value, it was a liberatory project. But that’s incoherent now because if everyone is using code extruders, why would it matter how the raw material being extruded from was licensed?

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