IMO all consumer software should forcibly become open source after 10 years. Companies have 10 years to make a fuckton of money from it. That also means they have 10 years to innovate enough so that once the source code is released they will still have something else to sell that is big enough of an improvement that people will still want to pay for it.
Otherwise you end up with stagnation and enshitification from companies controlling critical software and holding back entire industries like Adobe is.
Companies have 10 years to make a fuckton of money from it.
Some people really love monopolies, and it shows when they ignore history, and theory.
You’re remaking clans, which leads to clan wars, which leads to kingdoms, which lead to empires.
All software should be free. All blob reversed engineered. Let everyone decide how they run their machines.
IMO all consumer software should forcibly become open source after 10 years. Companies have 10 years to make a fuckton of money from it. That also means they have 10 years to innovate enough so that once the source code is released they will still have something else to sell that is big enough of an improvement that people will still want to pay for it.
Otherwise you end up with stagnation and enshitification from companies controlling critical software and holding back entire industries like Adobe is.
Some people really love monopolies, and it shows when they ignore history, and theory.
You’re remaking clans, which leads to clan wars, which leads to kingdoms, which lead to empires.
All software should be free. All blob reversed engineered. Let everyone decide how they run their machines.
This should be all media and patents. No one invents something alone. Everyone stands on all of our shoulders.