Comment by jvanderbot
13 hours ago
> It didn’t seem like 3D-printing ever showed sings of displacing existing ways of manufacturing at scale
No, it never seemed that way to the realists, but it was said to seem that way to the makerspheres.
13 hours ago
> It didn’t seem like 3D-printing ever showed sings of displacing existing ways of manufacturing at scale
No, it never seemed that way to the realists, but it was said to seem that way to the makerspheres.
Definitely a fantasy land ideal. Much like pitches from the Free Software Foundation of a world without copyright and IP. It's just never going to exist because reality just isn't that way.
> Much like pitches from the Free Software Foundation of a world without copyright and IP.
If there exists no copyright, you cannot force an entity to release the source code of their software.
A world without copyright and IP is for sure an interesting thought experiment, but very different from the FSF vision:
In such a world, there would be much more reverse-engineering and monkey-patching of existing (non-open) software that gets copied around very liberally.
On the other hand, because there exists no enforcable copyright, companies would of course invest a lot of ressources into developing hard to crack copy protection schemes. Similarly, freedom-loving hackers would invest serious ressources into cracking such copy protection schemes.
> Much like pitches from the Free Software Foundation of a world without copyright and IP.
Didn't the big AI vendors kinda bring that to fruition?