tanteMar 12

RE: https://mastodon.social/@bagder/116216352260770844

This is super good for open source, right?

Now you can spend your time building something and Amazon or Microsoft can just take it without having to give anything back.

(I think this is satire but how long do you think it takes for this shit to actually happen?)

Show threaddegenerating degenerate

@tante I am not sure how much you have been paying attention, but the large tech companies gorge themselves on liberally licensed FOSS and very seldom does any money make its way back to the authors.

This has always been the case and no AI needed.

Mar 12 at 2:55pmWeb
Show threadNegative KelvinMar 12
@hopeless @tante Google has a public policy (with FUD) banning AGPL licensed code. Now they can just BS their way around that.
Show threaddegenerating degenerateMar 12

@NegativeK @tante Again if any of the FAANG wanted to redo any FOSS project and have a different license, they can and have done that (eg, clang) just with the existing mammals at their command on the payroll, before the AI era.

There's a danger with the general - perhaps it will be well-founded, I don't know - terror about AI that many old ills, rainy days and disappointments are getting laid at its door in a kind of slowly rising pitch of hysteria.