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Official Linux position on LLM usage in kernel development
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Linus is not a very progressive guy. Alas, it is what it is. Hence the political bans in the LKML, who has votes in The Linux Foundation, where such foundation is based, the embracing of (Rust based) permissive licensing of drivers, and now this AI bullshit. Linux is not GNU.
I'm pretty sure the money talked, and in the next few years we're going to see walls being put around the kernel. We should rethink whether the 'benevolent' part of 'benevolent dictator' still applys.
IIRC Linus is self-declared as "woke". The exact quote is:
Ah, the liberal progressiveness. Not the seizing the means of production for the proletariat kind. My bad, I wasn't being fully open in my past comment because I know the world 'socialism' triggers many in the technology bubble.
Linus is Liberal as a pejorative.
He's a political/economic pragmatist. If you have record of him promoting capitalism or bashing socialism, please share, but as it is, Norway is one of the dozen most-socialist-leaning coutries on earth.
Maybe don't apply USian non-sense everywhere. Liberal vs Mamdani as a prejorative is relavent. Liberal vs Torvalds as a prejoritive makes about as much sense as saying the same about Xi Jiping, Kim Jong Un, Miguel Díaz-Canel, or Lenin.
It's absurd, obtuse, and besides the point, every bit so as the DNC using identity politics only to silence, promote, or ignore real voices for change.