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Re:We mourn our craft by davidw on Sunday February 08, 2026 @01:47PM (#46937221)
$3000 might not be much to a wealthy software engineer in the US, but to, say, a college student in Portugal, it's a big expense.

Open source software democratized software in a huge way.

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Re:We mourn our craft by seanmcdirmid on Sunday February 08, 2026 @05:02PM (#46938991)
Ok, from that perspective we are still a few years from when a college student in Portugal can run local OSS models on their own hardware...but we aren't a few decades away from that, at least.
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