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Re:Ask HN: Is software engineering still a good career choic... by iliashad on Wednesday June 10, 2026 @05:39AM (#48473817)
Unfortunately, yes. Also, talking about open source. With the AI, I saw a couple of posts about people trying to rebuild an open-source project in a different programming language and change the license. Which kind hurts the original open source project
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Re:Ask HN: Is software engineering still a good career choic... by sg1234 on Sunday June 14, 2026 @09:06AM (#48526853)
OSS has always been vulnerable to this. AI is accelerating, but changing the license doesn't guarantee adoption. It's not just because someone forked a project and changed license that suddenly everyone will start using that tool/library..

And the comparison to the music industry is fair, but the key difference is that in Software we had a Free/OSS movement for a while, and it did not kill the industry, on the contrary, it benefited from it.

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