Post #1757844
2026-04-02 13:18 UTC
@aredridel as if copyright as a hack to open more sourcecode through the GPL has worked in the last 20 years. All I've seen in practice is that there companies will rather build shitty in-house replacements of GPL'd software than open any of their own source.
I am absolutely flabbergasted, as someone who wants everybody to get value out of their computational devices, to get them to do what they want when they want on their own terms, and seeing how LLMs facilitate exactly the kind of "a single html file with local storage application that i share with my friends" malleable software so often dreamed of, to then be "but i have copyright on this pedestrian piece of software that presumably is 'remixed' by LLMs so no." and then attacking everybody studying and using the tools as "hubris driven tech bros wanting to keep their toys" when no, I want everybody to play with my toys.
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@aredridel@kolektiva.social 2026-04-02 13:30
@mnl This. This is where I'm at. The sheer amount of _liberatory joy_ people are taking in making things is fantastic. And it's things that will NEVER be used in a corporate environment. They're the wrong shape. They're personal and not for sale, so while copyright _applies_ because that's how the law is written it's not really a concern anyone wants or really engages with. And that's _good_. Copyright law is a lot of bullshit, but one that tearing down wholesale without shepherding the change would have disastrous consequences because of the systems that have built up around it. But the seeds of new and other systems are here right now.