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Shane Celis
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The LLM schism comes to free software. A movement that started with rewriting and relicensing software confronts LLMs which rewrites and relicenses software. LLMs offer users (non-programmers) a new means to exercise control over their computer, which is a free software goal, but it devalues and exploits developers' work. There's always been a friction between developer freedom (MIT/BSD) versus user freedom (GPL) within the open source community; LLMs may exacerbate this tension. #programming
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Joe Cooper πŸ‡ΊπŸ‡¦ πŸ‰ · 8w
nostr:nprofile1qy2hwumn8ghj7un9d3shjtnyd968gmewwp6kyqpqvu0zay8wzdnt05dyj0n3w24fq89e84gzq3ft53jcvrf74tea466sy0zxj6 I don't don't want to relitigate the GPL vs. BSD debate, but the framing of MIT/BSD being about "developer freedom" isn't how I view it. GPL gives the developer freedom to know that wh...
∴ esoterik ∴ · 8w
nostr:nprofile1qy2hwumn8ghj7un9d3shjtnyd968gmewwp6kyqpqvu0zay8wzdnt05dyj0n3w24fq89e84gzq3ft53jcvrf74tea466sy0zxj6 i don't think this is accurate. at least, i'm not sure most people's biggest problem is with a person who writes their own software (or modifies someone else's software for their own us...