Full disclosure: I personally have not used any BSDs before.
I am not sure whether the BSDs are really going to be those steadfast anti-AI warriors that some people make them out to be today in the light of the Debian-going-AI and Linux-going-AI news.
From what I can tell, the main philosophical difference between the various Linuxes and BSDs have always been two things:
Licensing
Modularity
BSDs generally seem to disagree with the copyleft ideal of the GNU licences and instead prefer their own lax, permissive licences that allow proprietary and all other kinds of nasty commercial uses. This does not appear to be a very trustworthy stance when we're talking about AI.
And regarding modularity, BSDs seem to err on the side of authority, preferring their base system to be one unified opinionated whole that's in turn designed to be as cohesive and functional as possible; while the Linuxes sacrifice that stability for user choice and modularity in a big patchwork. But this is also not a particularly appealing stance for someone who enjoys customisation and realises that sometimes, important software projects turn out to be problematic or compromised and need to be abandoned quickly.
#linux #debian #gnulinux #bsd #openbsd #netbsd #freebsd #ai #antiAi
I am not sure whether the BSDs are really going to be those steadfast anti-AI warriors that some people make them out to be today in the light of the Debian-going-AI and Linux-going-AI news.
From what I can tell, the main philosophical difference between the various Linuxes and BSDs have always been two things:
Licensing
Modularity
BSDs generally seem to disagree with the copyleft ideal of the GNU licences and instead prefer their own lax, permissive licences that allow proprietary and all other kinds of nasty commercial uses. This does not appear to be a very trustworthy stance when we're talking about AI.
And regarding modularity, BSDs seem to err on the side of authority, preferring their base system to be one unified opinionated whole that's in turn designed to be as cohesive and functional as possible; while the Linuxes sacrifice that stability for user choice and modularity in a big patchwork. But this is also not a particularly appealing stance for someone who enjoys customisation and realises that sometimes, important software projects turn out to be problematic or compromised and need to be abandoned quickly.
#linux #debian #gnulinux #bsd #openbsd #netbsd #freebsd #ai #antiAi