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You're both right but only one of you is seated in reality, the other describes the reality we aught to be in, but are not.
by xyzzy_plugh 4y ago
You're both right but only one of you is seated in reality, the other describes the reality we aught to be in, but are not.
- williamcotton 4y agoWhile I know I am right about the current interpretation of how copyright applies to software I am also of the opinion that this is also how things aught to be. I have yet to hear a persuasive argument otherwise. Is it because I both write and publish open source code and write and publish music that I am able to clearly delineate idea from expression? For one, I have never been satisfied with the non-utilitarian aspects of Copilot’s output. When I am writing software the real art has always been in how code is organized. I gain absolutely no aesthetic value from autocompleting unit tests or boilerplate. You may think that the outputs of Copilot and Stable Diffusion are artistic in nature but all I see is a rhyming dictionary. I look at attempts to have copyright cover the utilitarian aspect of software as an attempt to claim ownership over chord progressions, scales or time signatures.