> There's... absolutely nothing wrong with cloning the featureset of software? There is if you literally use the code for that software to build your clone, ei

> There's... absolutely nothing wrong with cloning the featureset of software? There is if you literally use the code for that software to build your clone, either directly or through an LLM trained on it, which is my remark implied. Even cloning the entire featureset of a software is problematic... > If ML would make it much easier to clone software UX, make that kind of task accessible to non-programmer users—then, all power to the users This is a contortion. Certainly the core of what you say is true -- but for that what you need is free software, either by political encouragement or by law. Not by making up a loophole where only a certain subset of rube goldberg machines are free to violate copyright but normal users are not. You end up in a world where the Lisp hacker cannot modify his word processor, but the guy with the LLM "can". The ridiculousness of such scenario is precisely what I wanted to point with my sarcasm.