nixCraft 🐧Tech companies believe in intellectual property, but not yours.
The Hypocrisy at the Heart of the AI Industry https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/2026/03/hypocrisy-ai-industry/686477/
Jeff Atwood@nixCraft alternatively, "copyright all the things and make a byzantine 'rights' system like the hellscape that is music licensing" is ALSO not the way. Information should be accessible to all. Aaron Swartz died for this and y'know what? I will too, if that's what it takes. Sorry not sorry.
Ismael Olea@codinghorror @nixCraft Jeff, as you know, there is an enormous gigantic dissymmetry between common openness fighters and absurdly financed tech giants, so it's unfair that copyright can be enforced to social activists (like individuals, OSS projects...) but not to mega corps because just piles of money. It's not byzantine to fight for an equal system and same opportunities for persons and companies.
@codinghorror @nixCraft We all want information accesible not for the information itself but because it's an empowerment tool.
@codinghorror @nixCraft The reason for the invention of the free/libre/open source licensing is to make this empowerment possible also for software, a then now «form of information». This licensing schema respects the Bern Convention, which is the default for almost all the planet, and applies for all legal actors.
@codinghorror @nixCraft now we have a another new «form of information», the AI models, and their openness rules should be over the Bern Convention, with an strong and equal legal system and not for capitalist giants only.
@codinghorror @nixCraft If we let the capitalists giants rule by their power. what can be now be open tomorrow will be closed, as capitalist always do with knowledge as soon they find they can maximize earnings.
@codinghorror @nixCraft nothing new for seasoned persons as we are :-/