alt Hacker NewsDid you thing it was still the 2000's or something?
That you were still free to write code, put it out there and have people use it freely?
A decade ago, I made a joke comment to a friend that you were soon going to need a carry permit to operate a compiler.
Joke's not so funny in 2026.
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lenkite • today at 7:14 AM
So, the guy that HN loves to mock and poke fun at - Richard Stallman - was utterly correct after all.
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A decade ago, I made a joke comment to a friend that you were soon going to need a carry permit to operate a compiler.
Richard Stallman's Right to Read (1997) made a similar observation.