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Past the whole thing about theft of code, theft of wages and theft of rights, my next problem with AI is that it's viral, in even worse terms than say the GPL is viral.
Once you accept slop submissions into a project, you have the problem that someone would have to check it. But why spend your own mental and emotional energy, better dedicated to dealing with and interacting with fellow humans, to trudge through a mass of hallucinated, gaslighting crap? Better set up some AI that checks the submitted code.
And now you have two problems.
Fortunately, lists like Open Slopware exist.
Linus is severely mistaken that Linux is not a "social warrior" project, but I guess that's mostly because he's the face the community has to try and "sanitize" for corporate the posture that people like RMS have. Gone are the times where he would openly flip Nvidia the bird. Which is not bad, but it's unfortunately ill-timed: if history has taught us anything useful this decade is that, right now, bootlicking to corporate and its trends such as "uniformity" and "neutrality" is not the win you think it is.
What the fuck are you talking about?
FOSS is inherently political, it's about whether or not you should have complete control of something you own. That's a political stance.
Everything anyone cares about is political.
I'd say FOSS is not more political than paying taxes. FOSS is just another way of using the copyright law enforcement without which FOSS cannot exist. If no copyright law enforcement is in place, then the GPL license wouldn't have power. So FOSS is just another way a law abiding citizen may use their rights/entitlement and perform their obligation with copyright law like how they have right/entitlement and obligation from taxes.
If we're including the other option, not paying taxes, then I agree. The choice of whether or not to use FOSS is as political as the choice of whether or not to pay taxes.
Coming back here from another discussion, I do find it funny now that a legal entity can choose to not pay taxes but a human cannot avoid that in any reasonable way
I mean you can if you're rich enough. But yeah.
That is a good point
Which already means a lot: not paying rent for the right to exist as a natural person in an environment managed by what is essentially a rent-seeker who got there beforehand and accrued more power, is already quite a political decision. And I've not even gotten to the political point of if the resources acquired via taxing are used correctly or for the benefit of that local society.
As other answers have made patent, I think the point is quite clear. When you look at the viable options for personal computing currently, Linux stands as the one that actually has some thought and backing to it to work in a social manner (rather than an anti-social manner). And so on.
That said, I don't exactly get why you are downvoted. I think the distinctions are important to point out and the question important to ask. It's just that Linus personally is mistaken about it.
FOSS cannot exist under capitalism, as it is quite literally the definition of Marxist Praxis. Linux is quite literally the single most wide spread and successful example of communist production in world history. It is, by its very existence, a "social warrior" project.
Why? The proof that linux exists under capitalism already proves your point does not hold
Linux, in fact, does not exist under capitalism. The Linux Foundation does not own capital. It does not pay taxes. Value is neither rented nor extracted from the workers who fully retain all ownership of the labor value of the product of Linux. The same way a commune can exist despite capitalism also existing, it does not mean that commune exists under capitalism.
Hmmm, I guess it depends on what you mean by capital. Because The Linux Foundation certainly has assets that they could donate to other FOSS project
The actual definition of capital. By the people that invented the term. A resource that is rented to another in exchange for part or all of the value generated by that resource. The Linux Foundation, being a non-profit, does not own any capital whatsoever, otherwise they would lose their non-profit status.
See that's what's confusing about it. He's saying one thing and doing another.
Then why did almost all of FOSS predominantly start in capitalist, free market economy countries?
Why did communism?
Russia: a tsarist autocracy.
China: an imperial monarchy.
Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia, North Korea: colonial or agrarian societies.
Cuba: Batista's corrupt military dictatorship.
Has communism actually ever risen from a free market capitalist country? The other way happened a lot. Marx was definitely wrong about this one.
As for FOSS, I believe the key is personal freedom, not the economic system that much. Linus just did what he wanted to do and he didn't need any permission.
edit Downmodded and no replies. You guys usually have a great answer to everything, but I guess this one was too tough.
Oh that's a neat novel idea. That it's viral. I know about the concept, but that's a good development in terminology for it.
Yup! Honestly we should publicly treat and sham AI usage that way when we interact with developer-oriented ticketing systems.
Psychologically, what do you think is happening to a lot of the people here who seem to be failing to see the issue with Torvalds's statements, seem to be even defending it, or even seem to be further obfuscating the particular discussion as if agenda driven? Because it is understanding and addressing these perspectives, which are going to move the needle on this.
As much as AI code is systemically viral, so too, are ideas and rhetoric on its responsible, considerate, and ethical future, if it is to have one.