incredible take from one of the GNU maintainers, seriously
@ariadne Chrst this email thread is something
@ariadne "freedom ain't free" ahh statement qwq
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Yes crazy, or a lost idiot in the team...
@ariadne Just to be clear, this would probably be a crime in both the UK and USA under modern slavery laws.
@ariadne gonna recommend punching both the asker and the askee here
@ariadne so desperate to rip off other people's work off that they're willing to justify slavery to do it
@ariadne They've been very consistent when it comes to software freedom over any particular set of ethics.
@ariadne Keep political philosophy as far as possible from STEM folks.
@ariadne in literally no other industry would slave labour be an acceptable part of the goods pipeline, irrespective of its legal status. No company or industry would proudly and publicly say they purchase raw materials produced through slave labour. It's completely insane.
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lmao they already fell into bureaucratic psychosis long before LLM one.
Such a resounding YES, one can imagine what it would have looked like if they supported emojis.
@ariadne "Our answer must be YES" has such maniac energy it''s such a whacky take.
here in germany just recently many companies used labour camps to build all products in all factories
it's a dark chapter and i can't imagine someone saying "our answer must be YES because the forced labour jews and political opponents who are slaved to death build the same toaster just fine"
@ariadne a terrible answer for a terrible question
@ariadne ???? WHAT THE ACTUAL FUCK