2026-07-15 03:25 UTC
In 1976, Bill Gates called hobbyists thieves for sharing software they'd written for each other. A property claim, not a philosophy. It's happening again, bigger.
The digital commons wasn't destroyed; it was absorbed: a free fix for cut services, industry-funded R&D, cloud enclosure that stops copyleft triggering.
AI goes further: it trains on the commons, floods it with slop, and isolates contributors chat by chat.
https://gaggl.com/blogs/2026-07-14-what-the-commons-built/
#DigitalCommons #OpenSource #AI
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@gimulnautti@mastodon.green 2026-07-15 06:35
@leogaggl@social.coop ”Each new area of digital production that could have become a commons has been captured before the community could organise.”