
chesterwisniewski.com
September 20, 2026
3 min read
58/100
Summary
The balance of software copyright protection and openness has always been fraught with minutiae and detail that bores all but the most nerdy of pedants. Yet, through much effort and 40 years of debate we had reached an equilibrium. Now AI has thrown that out the window. When I was young I remember typing in BASIC programs from magazines into my Commodore 64 and later teaching myself REXX to write ...