I’ve seen a few people talk about how a lot of open source feels different nowadays and how it’s odd that a movement that wanted to get away from centralised control is embracing corporate LLMs. I think a bunch of it is because open source is more thankless and load bearing now, so there’s even more burnout. But also, open source used to be made by outsiders (of which I am one), people on the fringe with a different view. Now, it’s increasingly populated by corporate insiders I think
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@sinbad@mastodon.gamedev.place For a lot of people I think first and foremost it's about scratching an itch and always has been. We're not in the days of the early GNU project any more - a lot of the motivation is about doing X but (better, cheaper, faster, ...) as opposed to e.g. an FSF notion of software freedom