But I'm not mad that we can reverse engineer stuff (well, reverse engineer is too nice, in a way: we can sort of clone). In fact, I love it. A friend recently shared that it feels illegal, but I find it to be a dream. The teenager in me who loved open-source would be celebrating intensely for the fact that now we can "open-source" other software. Or modify it. I've got mods in one way or another for almost every game I've been playing recently, it's truly a dream come true. I haven't open-sourced most of it, but mostly because I imagine the world is filled with vibed stuff.
I may make money by building software, and that certainly has included keeping things proprietary, but I don't ideologically love that. If the world progresses towards this, I think we're better off.
(But I'll admit I think I'm in the minority here).
But I'm not mad that we can reverse engineer stuff (well, reverse engineer is too nice, in a way: we can sort of clone). In fact, I love it. A friend recently shared that it feels illegal, but I find it to be a dream. The teenager in me who loved open-source would be celebrating intensely for the fact that now we can "open-source" other software. Or modify it. I've got mods in one way or another for almost every game I've been playing recently, it's truly a dream come true. I haven't open-sourced most of it, but mostly because I imagine the world is filled with vibed stuff.
I may make money by building software, and that certainly has included keeping things proprietary, but I don't ideologically love that. If the world progresses towards this, I think we're better off.
(But I'll admit I think I'm in the minority here).