Post #2330811
2026-04-18 16:49 UTC
@promovicz@chaos.social @dieweltist@bunt.social I'm really only addressing the "gotcha" Matthew posted.
I don't think it's a gotcha at all.
Telling people to rent access to proprietary software is exactly what we didn't want!
The free software political stance on this is entirely coherent and unsurprising in my opinion.
Whether anyone, (or Matthew), agrees with the politics is an entirely different thing.
But it's certainly not a gotcha about our ethos!
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@promovicz@chaos.social 2026-04-18 17:05
@hp@mastodon.tmm.cx @dieweltist@bunt.social On that, I just agree. I just wanted to point out that the economics of "vibe coding" are even worse than "code generation".
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@peterb@mathstodon.xyz 2026-04-19 14:52
@hp@mastodon.tmm.cx @promovicz@chaos.social @dieweltist@bunt.social Free software is about source code access, not price. As a thought experiment, if Anthropic (for example) made their entire software stack open source because they were confident that 99.9% of their users wouldn't have the data centers to actually run it, would that be morally OK from a purely free software POV? (To put my cards on the table: my answer is "yes".)