Post #1934533

2026-05-01 14:59 UTC

@wtay @lu_leipzig @downey I do not care if the project itself has plagiarized code or not. Claude is constructed, fundamentally and foundationally, off plagiarized code. PipeWire uses Claude to generate code. Plagiarized code, it seems, IS acceptable... as long as the damage and harm being done is at least one degree removed from PipeWire itself. Let somebody else do it. Don't put plagiarized code in the project itself, that would be *wrong*... but PipeWire will use and benefit off of tools constructed via mass theft. Is that the position?

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@wtay@fosstodon.org 2026-05-01 15:53

@TheEntity @lu_leipzig @downey PipeWire is a project, it does not use Claude to generate code. I have no problem with people submitting patches using the tools they want to use even if I don't like the tool or if I would find the OS or their political views or whatever unethical. This would be a very dangerous position to take. What matters to me in the end is that the patches are correct, maintainable and advance the project. You are free to judge me for the choices I make:

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