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2026-04-15 09:26 UTC
@ZDL@mstdn.social Well, a lot of people would strongly disagree with my sentiment here, but it's been forming more and more concretely for me over the last few years.
I think the fairer thing to state isn't so much that open source has become part of the problem, but that the world changed.
Doing stuff as open source is no longer the challenge; that battle is largely won. There are plenty of skirmishes left, and folk still fight those, for sure.
So I can respect folk for sticking with those, but when...
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@jens@social.finkhaeuser.de 2026-04-15 09:30
@ZDL@mstdn.social ... that results in compromises I find distasteful, then I struggle. The real challenge is: now that software has eaten the world, we really need to focus on making software have ethically sound foundations. And that is something few people even *want* to hear. Case in point, the stance of the open source initiative with regards to LLMs is dubious at best: https://opensource.org/ai/open-source-ai-definition Note how words such as "harm" or "bias" are nowhere to be seen.