[BSEdlMMldESB]

so long as we can read the source code AND debug the program, it's ok.

it may be difficult, but sometimes things are difficult

free and open source but private and paid for documentation???

[zogrodea]

The React Flow library has free documentation, but more extensive tutorials on how to use their library are part of their paid offering. (More about their model here: https://reactflow.dev/blog/asking-for-money-for-open-source/ .)

[BSEdlMMldESB]

this actually may help me clear out a subtle distinction:

the documentation has the same socialpolitical problem as any other artistic expression encoded into a digital asset

but the code has a subtly different socialpolitical problem that goes a little bit further than the one of 'mere' digital assets.

I don't expect to be understood, I just wrote this to think to myself... albeit in public.