@Pepijn I think at least for people selling stuff, it might be that taking pictures of scale models and related items is hard, and expensive. At least for ad purposes. You’d need a good camera and lens, lighting, the works, and you need to know how to take the pictures.

It’s much easier and faster to just generate the pictures.

I don’t approve, but I’m just trying to figure out why somebody would do this.

For hobbyists… I got nothing.

@tante Also, saying ’you can just fork it’ is just being mean and malicious. I’ve worked a bit with the Linux kernel and even wrote some code for it (proprietary, I think, not sure after 20 years), and I have done other software development. Technically, I could fork it, yes.

In practice? No way I could do anything meaningful with it. It’d take years to even bootstrap a project around it.

And the kernel is not the only piece of software I’d need to fork to get rid of ’AI’.

@foone Yeah. I started with friends' computers' BASIC, then got Turbo Pascal 3.0 from dad's work. After a bit I got the TP 6.0 bought for me by my parents and that was brilliant.

Everything else was difficult to get. I remember looking at PC-SIG diskettes for Lisp and Prolog, at least. But they weren't that good implementations anyway.

Later it was DJGPP and then gcc and others. Let's not go back to where programming tools are not free.