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Bill Gates is a horrible person. (lemmy.world)
submitted 8 months ago by to c/opensource@lemmy.ml
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So I just read Bill Gates' 1976 Open Letter To Hobbyists, in which he whines about not making more money from his software. You know, instead of being proud of making software that people wanted to use. And then the bastard went on and made proprietary licences for software the industry standard, holding back innovation and freedom for decades. What a douche canoe.

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[–] 7 points 8 months ago (1 child)

One day chat got won't work without a paid subscription...

Intellectual property as a concept is a cancer to humanity, and we'd be in a much better world without it.

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  • [–] 10 points 8 months ago* (2 children)

    This is why they want Wikipedia and internet archive, etc, killed off. They have it for their training data but they won't have a profitable model via paid subscriptions without a monopoly on information.

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  • [–] 5 points 8 months ago (1 child)
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  • [–] 3 points 8 months ago

    Yes but we're in the bait and switch phase of it. They're pushing the AI responses at the top of search to cut down the through clicking to Wikipedia. They're trying to capture behavior by being the lowest effort route to an answer. They're gambling that people will forget these other sites and then stop donating. Then it's to the courts until they're too broke to keep the servers online.

    The information will still be free, but maybe obfuscated enough that most people accept [erratic] information as a service.

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  • [–] 3 points 8 months ago

    "They" is the copyright industry. The same people, who are suing AI companies for money, want the Internet Archive gone for more money.

    I share the fear that the copyrightists reach a happy compromise with the bigger AI companies and monopolize knowledge. But for now, AI companies are fighting for Fair Use. The Internet Archive is already benefitting from those precedents.

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