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GitHub CEO delivers stark message to developers: Embrace AI or get out. (www.businessinsider.com)

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[–] finitebanjo@lemmy.world 1 point 1 year ago (2 children)

I agree with you 100% but theres also a small strange humour in the wordage of paying for freedom.

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[–] troed@fedia.io 3 points 1 year ago

It's a play on "free as in beer ...". We've seen all too well that paying with our data isn't the way to go.

https://opensource.stackexchange.com/questions/620/what-is-the-difference-between-free-as-in-beer-and-free-as-in-speech

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[–] AWistfulNihilist@lemmy.world 1 point 1 year ago

Freedom isn't free, it costs a buck 0'five

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