The United States, stepping boldly into the 19th century…
What a contrast between the glorious race to the moon in the 60’s, and medicine by leeches under RFK Jr’s HHS and congresscritters wanting to bring back privateering in 2025… The Roman empire took centuries to collapse, and it only took the US 50 years. Quite stunning.
My god, exactly this. Instead of AI slop features being slammed into every nook and cranny, we’d see software release rate slow to a crawl. Features would take way longer to produce and that would be a good thing. Software engineering licensing should also be a thing, just like with other engineering disciplines. Imagine if your building or bridge were treated like a typical software product. God damn terrifying. It is time for this discipline to grow up.
And software like Lemmy and PieFed would become nonexistent because they can’t afford to meet the regulatory capture.
This would be disastrous for us as users of software and would only benefit the big companies.
That’s what I’m thinking as well. I’m sure you know the attached meme, modern software would collapse, if FOSS software had to be certified like that.
As if we wouldn’t have a voice/vote to prevent that regulatory capture? And as if social software in particular wouldn’t be reshaped to avoid those regulations? So much of the world runs on FOSS already. It would be a monumental shift in the landscape and I sincerely doubt corpos would be successful in that regulatory capture without shooting themselves in the face. They need FOSS to be profitable.