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Reimplementation is *good, actually*. And honestly, if corporations are foolish enough to reimplement their code using an LLM, and in so doing, create a vast *new* commons of public domain software, well, that's not exactly the freesoftwarepocalypse, is it? 44/

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Literally the coolest free software thing I've seen in the past 12 months included a reimplementation of Raspberry Pi's PIO module to escape from its bullshit patent encumbrances: youtu.be/BbWWGkyIBGM?... 43/

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Free software authors re-implement each other's code all the time, often because they think the license the original code was released under sucks. 42/

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But reimplementation itself is *not a risk to free software*. Reimplementation is the *bedrock* of free software. GNU/Linux itself is a reimplementation of AT&T Unix. 41/

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