I think the opposite - software patents may not survive the AI era, and the open source (or public domain) will prevail.

This mostly focuses on the licensing part, but really, FOSS devs will also be able to produce more FOSS and license it differently, perhaps under no-AI-copyleft licenses.

Anyway, the whole idea behind FOSS is freedom and effectiveness (by standing on the shoulders of giants), and none of that gets invalidated in the AI/LLM world.

FOSS has been here for a long time, and it will be here for a long time. It's often driven by self-motivation. Let's instead focus on the AI bubble that's 17 times the size of the dotcom bubble[1], and kept inflated primarily by the Big 7 playing financial merry go round.

[1] https://edition.cnn.com/2025/10/18/business/ai-bubble-analys...