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I’m so sick and tired of the entire tech world resting on the massively undervalued work of folks in open source, in education, community building doing unpaid or drastically underpaid standards work. It goes on. It’s been happening for decades. It’s just do pronounced now.

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Potential cheeky solution: - all OSS adopts copy left and embraces multi licensing - if you want Apache/MIT you pay an annual license fee Expected outcome: - business spend tokens to clean room eliminate most does - hard stuff does get supported - meh? We need a much better everything here.

This take is at odds with your AI boosterism - an industry built entirely on stolen StackOverflow and GitHub data, but with the added ‘benefits’ of using all the electricity and water, driving inflation, ruining Copyright and IP laws, and yet STILL hallucinating ~50% of the time.