Project link: https://github.com/storytold

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This isn’t even reverse engineering. As far as I can tell, within the scope of the project, there are no attempts to restore the original software’s source code; instead, a completely new one is being created using a different language (Rust), and it is also designed from the ground up to be used by AI agents—meaning it has both a graphical interface for humans and a console interface for silicon. From the original software, it maintains file format compatibility, a similar appearance, and a set of functions. Thus, lawyers from Adobe and Microsoft will have nothing to latch onto. After all, no one prohibits Linux distributions that are made to look as much like Windows as possible.

Again, even if proprietary software developers somehow mysteriously gain the right to prosecute open-source developers of functionally similar software, there are no problems with, for example, moving from GitHub to Nostr (where you can host a git distributed across relays and blossom servers), and whom would they prosecute then? A set of open keys? Behind them are AI agents busily coding something. Granting access to proprietary AI models via whitelists only to employees of large companies? AI providers are already loss-making, and after such restrictive measures, they will simply go bust, and all large IT companies will follow them, as they can no longer code without AI models. In short, proprietary software developers will have to suck it up.

In general, the world is currently moving through intricate paths toward a kind of techno-communism. Basic infrastructure services are becoming publicly available, with payment required only for premium access. The ability to do something low-level at the information level is becoming as niche as the ability to craft something by hand at the material level has been becoming niche for almost a century. The main human advantage, which has not yet been reproduced by machines, remains the ability to want. Those who are ready to want for a long time, in a structured and consistent manner, and within the framework of a single project, can monetize this skill, and what exact end consumer product emerges as a result is a secondary matter. It turns out: from each according to their ability, to each according to their wanting.