That's right, the most blatant of all brainwashes has always been directed at children. But it's totally under parents' radar, because they were treated well in their due time too. The human spiral of doom.
One doesn't simply buy GitHub for $7.5e+9 to foster the community and the ideals of open source.
Moreover, ideals like that don't simply pop out of the blue and right into the collective psyche without comparable infusions.
To drive it home in case lines between dots are not obvious: open source ideology, github and copilot are merely successive stages in the process of production of profit. The next step is obvious, get rid of human programmers and save on their wages.
I thought that all the fuzz about something being close source / commercial aka overpriced is not worth a hill of beans, because if it doesn't fit your ideals/wallet you just use what fits.
But no, there's always a discourse about how unfair, unethical, greedy etc the developers of closed source / commercial aka overpriced software are, which vividly displays that the actual sentiment in these complaints is pure and simple envy, towards better things that cost more, towards developers who make a living off their own projects and don't feel obliged to worship the ideals of open source, free as in beer, cheap as in dirt etc...
Open source software doesnt have to be free as in beer. I actually make a decent living off writing oss software. For the most part the work is like consultancy (we have paying clients request features). Despite being an oss dev I do actually pay for software I think is worth it. I think the major issue with mathematica is that it is _really_ pricy for paid software (and not great at that, ive run into many bugs with it).
Sorry dude, one can't simply tell truth here. Your downvoters shall persist with their cognitive dissonance until they find themselves literally l̶o̶c̶k̶e̶d̶ self-isolated in t̶h̶e̶ ̶c̶e̶l̶l̶s̶ ̶o̶f̶ ̶t̶h̶e̶ ̶M̶a̶t̶r̶i̶x̶ their cosy appartments f̶e̶e̶d̶i̶n̶g̶ ̶t̶h̶e̶ ̶M̶a̶c̶h̶i̶n̶e̶ signalling their virtue, and even then they will pretend it's OK and everyone dissident is just nuts.
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