Coding Agents Could Make Free Software Matter Again
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AI coding agents are reviving the practical importance of free software by enabling non-programmers to modify and customize code through AI intermediaries. While SaaS made software freedom feel irrelevant, agents can exercise technical freedoms on users' behalf when source code is available, but hit walls with proprietary software.
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