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Post #1785032

2026-04-24 06:51 UTC

@hopeless I don't know enough to judge the full story, I am just reporting what the announcement says, and it mentions explicitly nondisclosure of AI in code production and hostile trademark registration and project takeover as reasons for the split. That said, it is always important to distinguish facts (above) from opinions (below): In my personal opinion: 1) Given the current (lack of) consensus on the ethics, quality, and legality of AI in code production, I think it is just good sense to disclose the use of AI when contributing (note this is also our policy at Shufflecake: AI code use is not forbidden, but must be disclosed); 2) in any case, appropriation of trademark in a community project can only be seen as community-unfriendly behavior at best, a jerk move at worst. And of course take this as a gut reaction without having still heard the other side of the story, which I'd be curious to hear since I started recently playing around MeshCore and I found it an interesting project.

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  • @hopeless@mas.to 2026-04-24 07:06

    @tomgag There are a lot of claims but they don't rise to the level of coherent argument in most cases. What exactly is 'unethical' about a machine reading liberally licensed FOSS that allows it? Most of Github is liberally licensed FOSS. As I said whoever pours more effort in their fork "wins". We'll have to see how it actually turns out, but with that in mind, the non-"MIINE" guys seem to have made a tactical error eschewing AI... the upstart bro will increasingly out-compete them via AI.

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