Really wish we had professionalized and strongly regulated computer programming like 50 years ago instead of the mess we have now
Like, imagine a timeline in which the free software movement hadn't been thought to be necessary in the first place because we could actually trust computers to be doing what they claim to be doing and not doing sneaky extra things
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@bgcarlisle Many people care about free software not (only) so that they can trust that software does what it says on the tin (in the manual), but mostly because they want to use the computer as an automatic agent of theirs, so want to be able to modify software they are using (and share those modifications, etc.).
