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 Our digital overlords may yet be put to rout. “We Have No Moat” was the latest triumph of open-source in the context of machine learning and it exposed another crack in the corporate edifice of proprietary software and sequestered data. Though like Maharbal and Moglen we may at times be too zealous too soon, our Rome is destined to decline and certainly fall under the weight of its internal contradictions. This time, I will not hesitate to be on hand with our terms.
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I am too close tot he subject to be reliable, perhaps, but I would not have titled the volume of my memoirs about free software and related concerns "On Being Right Too Soon" if I weren't basically in agreement with your analysis. Stallman thought our vision was primarily about ethics. I thought it was primarily about politics. We were premature. Mostly it was about the political economy of software, about which we were entirely correct.

Yochai Benler's talk at our SFLC Conference in 2017 also resonates with your view in explaining the trajectory of the ideas against industry and proprietary pushback.

But you are also correct that the force of the idea of enablement is deep in the middle of the "AI" frenzy, as Yann and others make the "open source" form relevant, while the role of copyleft for publishers will soon be reevaluated because of the scraping disaster they now realize they have suffered.

I don't see any way to improve this. Rest on it until you too are being right too soon.

 
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