mhoye on Nostr: I wrote a bit more about it here but: ...

I wrote a bit more about it here but:

https://exple.tive.org/blarg/2024/06/14/fifty-years-of-diff-and-merge/

I have a theory that you can tell if a technology belongs to the people if two strangers can exchange patches, needing nobody's consent but their own.

Licensing, infrastructure, everything else subordinate to this. If you can't do this, that technology is proprietary.