Considering my personal experience with Collabora as well as their recent drama with The Document Foundation and LibreOffice, I’m surprised more didn’t go wrong.

The team states no proprietary Windows code is copied or transcribed.

But what if they have looked at it before?

I wonder how many people saw this coming.

I get the sense that a lot of people were blindsided recently, not only from large recent donations to some groups, and Linus using AI… but also OSI declaring a focus on politics.

Does this mean the brain actually works similarly to NNs? And that modeling it is possible?

That still doesn’t prevent a company from having the option to use the code commercially. Whether they actually want to do it or not is a separate issue.

But how is requiring explicit approval (meaning it’s not something that is typically allowed) considered “permissive”?

Can someone please tell the owner of https://codeberg.org/ethical-foss/open-slopware that NetBSD does not in fact have a “Permissive AI Policy.”

Nothing in the GPL prevents software from being used commercially… why do you claim they are unable to?

NetBSD, the only OS where typing ldconfig instantly bricks your system without warning.

RIP yt-dlp

I’d prefer a list of projects that publicly abuse their users… which ironically still includes Linux and *BSD.

At least Haiku is actually daily drivable if your hardware is supported.

It’s on the list, and they probably used Linux to write the entire site.

My point was that

That’s all fine and dandy, I just don’t agree with simultaneously saying “make it indistinguishable if you’re gonna use AI” in addition to “don’t use AI”, since as you say there is no effective difference if you can’t tell, so why should it still be disallowed? Surely we can come up with some middle ground to describe the intent of the rule better than silently implying “just don’t get caught”?

It’s getting harder to tell the difference though. Slop artists can still prompt their agent to follow the codebase’s existing style/format.

Upvote for Zelda TV show reference

Some projects are already quietly saying “just don’t tell people it’s AI” and to make it look indistinguishable, then get on with life.

Can’t say I have any good rebuttals against that tbh.