The point is not that they know your IP, but that even your IP already gives away information. That's why they start with the information, rather than the IP being the source.

This is not intended to be for people who understand how this works.

And as someone else said, probably vibe coded.

If that is the idea then I'm behind it! Unfortunately too many bigots out there for me to assume that.

Again?! Isn't Iran supposed to be vaporized three times over by now?

Of course, there will be edge cases of industries that have not improved their margins over the years. But the fact that prices follow inflation, and wages do not, is enough information to generalise that businesses are just greedy as fuck.

Why should I, as a consumer, give a fuck about competition between capitalists and states?

Because it is directly affecting you. Unfair competition means chinese companies get a bigger market share globally while european companies get a smaller market share globally. That means more jobs in China, less jobs in the EU. That affects the general popuation immensely.

The hypocrisy of the EU (and western world) here also exists though: We benefited from cheap chinese labor for decades, and now that China has made it so that they benefit from it more than us, we're deciding to put a stop to it.

All I care about is how much I have to pay for the car

That is the same shortsight that has brought us to this economic failure.

Nationalizing jobs does nothing if you can't sell the products.

I don't know how more clearly I can spell it out.

Start with some open-mindedness to recognize that your train of thoughts is flawed.

I am of the same opinion, but when it comes to laptops, I'd rather go for an american company that cares about repairability, sustainability, and genuinely good laptops than a EU company without those values. It's not all black and white, and this is a clear case where paying a US company is one of the better choices.

That should never be a reason not to share open source knowledge!

I agree with the sentiment and the source of this cycle of fascism, but the solution was not to let it happen.

I am a professional software engineer, and my experience is the complete opposite. It does it faster and cheaper, yes, but also noticeably worse, and having to proofread the output, fix and refactor ends up taking more time than I would have taken writing it myself.

Now, your friend with the birlliant idea doesn't need you anymore and can ask a chatbot to make his brilliant app all by himself!

That is definitely a great benefit of vibe coding: it's an idiot magnet and frees up our brainspace.

I'm far from an expert on licenses, but logic tells me that any version that was released with the previous license is still under that previous license. So it's probably okay to fork from a previous version to maintain linux support?

Afraid of what? Replying to what point? Your "shower thought" (lmao) is just a messy thought process of which every single step is based on nothing.

Why would we waste energy discussing consequences of events that will never happen?