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Linux creator Linus Torvalds puts foot down on anti-AI comments
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this post was submitted on 16 Jul 2026
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But if there are proprietary lines of code that end up in a project with an open license, you get a violation. ๐คทโโ๏ธ
what is a proprietary line of code? how do you look at a for loop or uf statement and say "i own that". i can tell you that in all the huge applications i have worked on in the last 27 years, there isnt special proprietary code. there is proprietary data but not code.
the only time you really have proprietary codeis specialized code talking to a specialized device. so maybe a closed source driver.
I have worked at two companies back-to-back for a total of about 8 years, so significantly less time, that both definitely had proprietary code.
It is code that does things that nobody else is doing, or able to do, and patented, I believe(?).
But nice anecdote. ๐