> The giant plagiarism machines have already stolen everything. Copyright is dead. Licenses are washed away in clean rooms.

Isn't this what the free software movement wanted? Code available to all?

Yes, code is cheap now. That's the new reality. Your value lies elsewhere.

You can lament the loss of your usefulness as a horse buggy mechanic, or you can adapt your knowledge and experience and use it towards those newfangled automobiles.