In the last 2 weeks I:

- reverse-engineered a Mac App Store app, modernized its UI, and added support for Apple Silicon. It took about 90 minutes running in the background.

- created faithful macOS ports of ~7 classic 68k Macintosh games; most are now written in Swift, with MacToolbox routines reimplemented (one exception: MS Flight Simulator 1.02 worked better as a plain C app, since it had a hand-authored bytecode interpreter in 68k assembly)

All it takes is a goal with nearly 100% specificity

Does this not encourage proprietary vendors to just make everything cloud only with subscription? Including games? In the CFO's office, that's a win-win: increased revenue and security of the code.

At some point, boycott will be consumers' only viable move. Legislation is urgently needed here imo.

One hack in Anthropic is all it takes. They already have all the source code of each company in the world.

That's not open source.

Smells like communism to me... no private property, expropriated by the AI.

More like open-to-utilize-full-capacity in that case.

Not all software, obviously. Apple is notoriously good at producing "black box" products.