Linux kernel goes full AI slop, hides chatbot commits
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@jupiter But Torvalds putting out far right dogwhistles is deeply painful:
@jupiter And I wonder whether we should have expected that, because doing something for idealism vs. doing something for technology and not trusting idealists has always been a conflict between Linus and GNU – with Linus not even accepting GPLv2 *or later*, because he did not trust the idealists from the FSF.
Which is the reason why the EU had to rule that getting updates to smartphones is required for being in the EU market–while GPLv3 would have guaranteed by itself that you can update.
@ArneBab Hmm. I'm still waiting for HURD to be honest, so GNU has become quite the second violin to Linux, rightfully or not. I do think the AGPL3 is one of the best and purest things to license under, though.
@vampirdaddy EUPL has weaker copyleft than AGPL – it is a compatibility vector for most copyleft licenses, so it can’t have the “must share the code with everyone who comes to interact with it”.
It is still a really good license, though.
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@jupiter there’s a bit more nuance in the argument, but it shows that once you let AI coders in, some will try to push you out – an excerpt from LWN (only an excerpt because it’s subscriber only content):
https://rollenspiel.social/@ArneBab/117447227490312321
https://lwn.net/Articles/1099594/