The reason I disagree with this analogy is that the new tooling is fundamentally incompatible with software freedom that cannot be solved with gcc et al. I can’t afford a $10k computer to run local models.
That’s actually a good point but if we consider history the barrier to entry to software engineering was huge 40-50 years ago, not many people could afford to do it locally. Then again it’s different because software as a whole wasn’t really that important 50 years ago.
Then again “software freedom” as we know it may just as well be a coincidental transient phenomenon because capitalist markets arranged themselves in such a way to make the hardware and software required to build and maintain software accessible enough to the general public, that “right” can conceivably be taken away by the same system again, there is no reason to assume it’s here to stay.
Honestly I’m just rambling at this point I have no idea where any of this leads I’m pretty much hoping the whole thing is gonna be a dud and we’ll return to the same old way of doing things, capitalism is a fuck, death to america.
That’s actually a good point but if we consider history the barrier to entry to software engineering was huge 40-50 years ago, not many people could afford to do it locally. Then again it’s different because software as a whole wasn’t really that important 50 years ago.
Then again “software freedom” as we know it may just as well be a coincidental transient phenomenon because capitalist markets arranged themselves in such a way to make the hardware and software required to build and maintain software accessible enough to the general public, that “right” can conceivably be taken away by the same system again, there is no reason to assume it’s here to stay.
Honestly I’m just rambling at this point I have no idea where any of this leads I’m pretty much hoping the whole thing is gonna be a dud and we’ll return to the same old way of doing things, capitalism is a fuck, death to america.