Comment by superdisk
14 days ago
I saw someone say that we're going to go back to a situation like the 70s where software is technically copyrightable but there's no reason to bother. Maybe Stallman's dream will finally come true.
14 days ago
I saw someone say that we're going to go back to a situation like the 70s where software is technically copyrightable but there's no reason to bother. Maybe Stallman's dream will finally come true.
that would be the absolute dream imo. true ownership of the code running on your system.
Who is going to write that software if there is no reward.
To make sure that AI never uses your work (source code or binaries) for training, I see two possible solutions:
- the software would run only on your own server and clients will access it remotely through an interface
- you will sell the software together with the hardware and a proprietary operating system, which does not allow anyone to get the ones and zeros of your software
So, the only way to prevent GTA6 being "decompiled" and "forked" by AI models is to run it remotely (with a video interface), or sell it together with a proprietary console :D
most oss is written with the expectation of no financial reward. there is more to life than money.
not to mention there are alternative revenue sources anyways.
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It isn't true ownership if you depend on an LLM you don't own to modify the code in ways you don't understand. That's just proprietary software with extra steps.
That's a pretty high bar.
By that standard, couldn't I say you don't truly own open source software like Chromium or OpenSSL because very few are capable of understanding the codebase well enough to implement changes?
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