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points by JSR_FDED 1 day ago | 0 comments

It would be amazing because while unemployed you’d have all the time in the world to play with that software

Are you saying we would all be unemployed if everything is GPL'd?

Now it's the case that almost all software can be reverse engineered by AI. So the moat will be eroded regardless. Filthy copyleft or not.

Legally reverse engineering a system is a lot harder than throwing an AI at it, at least if you think you might be called into court over it.

hey now -- i'd be working hard as a barista. totally employed.

but all the code would be free.

There are non-software jobs, and also paid work supporting and developing free software.

With the arrival of AI, many of us will need to career change anyway.