I don't think "you own your own hardware" will be true for long.

Spirits don't get much legal protection.

mitxela 16 hours ago | parent | next [-]

If LLMs are as good at RE as everyone says, we will own our hardware again.

You'd have to build your own fab from ground up - meaning no ASML. Is not going to happen.

	▲	mitxela 14 hours ago \| parent [-]
		You don't have to own the entire pipeline to own enough of it. People run Linux and say they own their OS.

They used to. We used to call those spirits "rights".