Post #4216374
2026-07-15 16:57 UTC
@tante@tldr.nettime.org Also, saying ’you can just fork it’ is just being mean and malicious. I’ve worked a bit with the Linux kernel and even wrote some code for it (proprietary, I think, not sure after 20 years), and I have done other software development. Technically, I could fork it, yes.
In practice? No way I could do anything meaningful with it. It’d take years to even bootstrap a project around it.
And the kernel is not the only piece of software I’d need to fork to get rid of ’AI’.
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@akareilly@hachyderm.io 2026-07-16 10:00
@pare@kamu.social @tante@tldr.nettime.org Doesn’t work for software developers who have day jobs or non-work obligations like child care. For end users it’s a non-starter. As someone who can take a raw sheep fleece and make a cardigan out of it, I don’t go around telling people who don’t like the jumpers on the market to learn to spin and knit their own if they want to be clothed. That would be unhinged. Make the same claims about software and suddenly it’s acceptable to a large number of FOSS advocates.