A provocative post by Stefano Maffulli, former Executive Director of #OSI

https://www.maffulli.net/2026/03/16/ai-final-frontier-of-copyleft/

New liberation or the finding of the limitations of the copyleft and copyright concepts per se?

@gisgeek

I see a bunch of things but I am very bad at doing predictions this is why I am still poor. You're a definitely smarter than me so you may have already developed answer at all my questions...

1. Why the industry shoot to its feet? I mean why many engineers decided to push the accelerator on AI knowing it would have make them lesser valuable?

2. AI will reshape opensource and kill free software (as in freedom). We will move back from free software to free share software again; all these "home brew" projects will be developed with closed doors. The only opensource software available will be the one generated by AI.

3. There will be either the rediscovering of older languages and an acceleration of new languages to make the AI models pretty marginals. For the latter the development won't be in the opensource.

4. Computers Science new students will shrink in the universities with always lesser people capable to understand and catch AI mistakes.

What do you think?

@freezr
Many questions and many possible future drifts or changes await all of us. I think no one can predict what will happen now. Once the Pandora box has been opened, there is no way to close it again, and those who try to negate such a revolution are living in an illusion. My major concern is the youngest part of us and their future (present?) capability to manage AI tooling with awareness and judgment. A hard deskilling is extremely probable. But who knows?

@freezr
I already wrote some posts about such topics in the past, anyway, and the capability of developing and maintaining high-profile skills will probably become the true superpower of a developer.

https://lovergine.com/tags/ai.html

Posts Tagged: ai — frankie-tales

@freezr
Maybe the most significant post for my thoughts about AI tool is

https://lovergine.com/still-no-silver-bullet.html

Still, no silver bullet — frankie-tales

@gisgeek former executive director of OSI 🙂
@stefano Thanks, fixed. I was not sure, indeed.