There’s two prongs to this

1. Caching is an optimization strategy used by legitimate software engineers. AI dorks are anything but.

2. Crippling information sources outside of service means information is more easily “found” inside the service.

So if it was ever a bug, it’s now a feature.

A reprap style project could probably make a passable document printer- but what’s the appeal? People only work on those projects to make new or previously unobtainable machines available.

I just don’t think it’d be worth the effort.

where legally, “sell” includes things that most people wouldn’t consider a sale

Allowing access for valuable consideration is pretty cut and dry. What is the legislation defining beyond that?

stifle reverse engineering for interoperability.

Nothing will get better until the rent seekers are cast out of the temple.

the main issue is

Sure. But I’ve seen quite a bit of push back against rust from these sorts even outside the kernel.

Can someone distill the good faith argument against rust? Is there one?

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