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Re:Emacs in the Age of Magic by merelydev on Thursday November 12, 2026 @02:07AM (#50463996)
> The irony is rich that AI has turned Stallman's goal of software freedom on its head. Having your computer do whatever your imagination can think up -- that's real freedom.

The irony is that Stallman promoted free software and allot of code got published online for free, and now LLMs have trained on this code. Without Stallman there will be no vibe coding.

Re:Emacs in the Age of Magic by brabel on Thursday November 12, 2026 @02:25AM (#50464087)
I don’t find that ironic. As the post says, AI gives people the ultimate freedom to materialize Stallmans world where everyone can modify the software they use any way they want. The fact that his movement helped that become a reality seems the opposite of irony.
Re:Emacs in the Age of Magic by piekvorst on Thursday November 12, 2026 @08:17AM (#50466665)
> Without Stallman there will be no vibe coding.

Without FSF, there would have been probably somewhat less open-source data, but certainly not dramatically less.

Re:Emacs in the Age of Magic by hobo123 on Thursday November 12, 2026 @12:36PM (#50471054)
I think I would kind of like the alternative timeline where BSD had won instead of Linux.
Re:Emacs in the Age of Magic by Gormo on Thursday November 12, 2026 @12:55PM (#50471333)
I guess I'm not seeing how either of these things are irony.