[tda]

> I wish there were some OSS type license for Parasolid. It could be treated like the Linux kernel.

> Whatever replaces Parasolid and friends, should be treated like the Linux kernel.

So much this! But the undertaking is so daunting, how do we get there? A capable, OSS CAD kernel would provide so much value to the world. I whish e.g. the EU could just "nationalise" such important, crucial software and redistribute it openly. Or that through some Chinese effort a newer and better kernel just lands out of nowhere and disrupt the field, like with DeepSeek.

The world has benefitted so immensely from Linux being freely available, has anyone even tried to put a price on the benefit to humanity? Imagine being stuck in a world where on big corporations can have proper OS-es, and everyone else is stuck with some anaemic locked down kernel...

[cyanydeez]

Im not sure we are annywhere near Software as Public Infrastructure.

Will need to clear put billionaire parasites, and that wont happen till American fascism hita its nadir.