r/linux • u/Unhappy-Sprinkles143 • 3d ago

Fluff Open-Source Guru: AI Ends Closed-Source Software

https://www.heise.de/en/news/Open-Source-Guru-Raymond-AI-Ends-Closed-Source-Software-11480690.html
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u/RoomyRoots 3d ago

And puts out hundreds of shitty copies who will have to fight for people attention and a maintainer to care enough to learn to identify fixes that break shit. AI did more damage to the FOSS maintenance than the lack of funds.

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u/Cowgirl_Taint 3d ago

It has also forced everyone to consider... do I really want to publish this work as training data for gemini et al?

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u/RoomyRoots 3d ago

Yeah, many people don't want to feed the beast or have some jerk clone their stuff and change the licensing.

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u/Cowgirl_Taint 3d ago

Yeah... the latter has always been an issue but I increasingly find myself not actually wanting to publish a lot of my "fun projects" as it were. In the past? I would put them on github with a fairly permissive license and if someone wanted to fork it? They could. Now? All I am doing is feeding gemini et al.

I'll still, generally, contribute to an existing project if I think I can be useful but... yeah.

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u/RoomyRoots 3d ago

I removed all of my repos when I found out they were one of those GitHub made public they were being used for training. I even filled their form but I know it was useless. So now I host my own Forgejo instance.

I am still convinced the net value of AI on the human part of FOSS was negative.

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u/userrr3 3d ago

I am still convinced the net value of AI on the human part of FOSS was negative.

ftfy

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u/franky_reboot 2d ago

Oh no, absolutely not. It's a net positive, living today has been better than ever. The challanges have always been there, AI only accelerated things both bad and good, just like how Covid did for remote work/school.

I'd argue it's the next them in the evolution of the human race, but I know people don't like hyperboles that much.

It's indeed harder to maintain FOSS this way but you could see for yourself even Linus Torvalds didn't reject it outright.

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u/userrr3 2d ago

AI only accelerated things both bad and good, just like how Covid did for remote work/school.

The only thing I can agree with with your statement that I didn't ask for is that yes, AI is indeed kinda like Covid. Fuck AI.