To address your first point. If we can't even question the most basic of our tooling then we'll just inhabit a stasis that may be just a local optimum.
To address your second point. The way I think these licence/license words should go is - think of advice/advise. The verb's got the 's', the noun's got the 'c'. Am I wasting my time in actually caring about shit like that? Probably. But that's how I'm wired.
To address your first point. If we can't even question the most basic of our tooling then we'll just inhabit a stasis that may be just a local optimum.
To address your second point. The way I think these licence/license words should go is - think of advice/advise. The verb's got the 's', the noun's got the 'c'. Am I wasting my time in actually caring about shit like that? Probably. But that's how I'm wired.