I seem to glean that most of you who do use GenAI coding assistants appear to prefer Claude, even those of you who work professionally in free and open source software.
How does your organisation look upon this...
https://github.com/anthropics/claude-code/blob/main/LICENSE.md
To clarify what I mean: the vendor has chosen not to put its software under a copyleft license, which means they have not undertaken a legal obligation to give you source code that matches your binary.
They're also not giving you a means to verify the binary that's in that Google Storage bucket, except using a checksum that is *also* in that bucket. So it would seem like you have no way to tell that the software in the binary has anything to do with the code in the repo.
@zhenech Yes, I know. It's also how proprietary software sucks. 🙂
Now, I fully appreciate that lots of people/orgs out there couldn't care less about that suckage, or don't even consider it suckage. That's why I asked specifically how a company that builds or otherwise relies on FOSS assesses Claude's potential (or real) impact.
@zhenech Also, https://opencode.ai/ does exist, is at least MIT licensed (no copyleft, but better than "All Rights Reserved"), and does give you somewhat better verification options including a local install, so I'm curious how people/orgs assess those two relative to each other.
cc @larsmb
@xahteiwi @zhenech Limited testing suggests that CC just still performs better, perhaps because it's what the model is trained/fine-tuned for.
Unfortunately that's quite hard to measure.
At the end of the day, we're all stuck with plenty of proprietary software and services and people pick their battles.
Gauge the impact of AI by who is involved in its creation, who invests in it, and who promotes it.
The fossil fuel industry funds AI.
https://www.desmog.com/2025/12/11/the-koch-network-is-pushing-trump-to-accelerate-ai-documents-show/
Notorious bigots & wingnuts promote it.
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/04/06/openai-asks-california-ag-to-probe-musks-anti-competitive-behavior-.html
Beware of any software developed by an amoral narcissist or who mistreats his coders
https://archive.is/VGP4Z
https://www.ft.com/content/e5fbc6c2-d5a6-4b97-a105-6a96ea849de5
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Beware of any entity in the pay of #PrinceBonesaw, Putin, Koch Network or Rockbridge Network.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/27/technology/saudi-arabia-ai-exporter.html
https://medium.com/predict/musks-ties-to-putin-laid-bare-2d0b0568a42e
Avoid any venture funded by a coup plotter
https://www.sfchronicle.com/tech/article/project-2025-oracle-19654875.php
https://www.status.news/p/larry-ellison-2020-election-cbs-news-january-6
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/05/20/larry-ellison-oracle-trump-election-challenges/
AI is the financialization of mass fraud, automates theft, lying & disinformation, and expands spyware & surveillance.
https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2024/09/omnipresent-ai-cameras-will-ensure-good-behavior-says-larry-ellison/
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https://fortune.com/2024/09/17/oracle-larry-ellison-surveillance-state-police-ai/
https://www.trendingtopics.eu/billion-dollar-shuffle-openai-nvidia-oracle/
https://www.desmog.com/2025/12/11/the-koch-network-is-pushing-trump-to-accelerate-ai-documents-show/
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/02/06/google-microsoft-pay-creators-500000-and-more-to-promote-ai.html
https://www.wired.com/story/ai-industry-monopoly-nvidia-microsoft-google/
AI is driving up rents, gas prices, electricity & water utility rates and is worsening climate change.
https://www.consumerreports.org/data-centers/ai-data-centers-impact-on-electric-bills-water-and-more-a1040338678/
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/02/12/electricity-price-data-center-ai-inflation-goldman.html
https://www.propublica.org/article/doj-realpage-settlement-rental-price-fixing-case
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"Personalized pricing" is an AI scheme to defraud with price manipulation.
AI suppresses wages & voting
https://news.bloomberglaw.com/daily-labor-report/states-target-ai-that-tells-companies-how-much-to-pay-workers
https://www.brennancenter.org/topics/voting-elections/vote-suppression/voter-purges
https://www.bostonherald.com/2025/11/25/election-2024-ai-robocalls-biden/
https://www.brennancenter.org/our-work/research-reports/preparing-fight-ai-backed-voter-suppression
This client alert provides an overview of the legal and regulatory landscape surrounding personalized pricing, highlights key enforcement actions and legislative developments, and outlines compliance considerations for companies and their legal teams.
@xahteiwi The hope is to transition to opencode.
But for many, it's just work, not a conscious decision. When you're typing on your Mac or Windows machine, it barely matters.
Plus, nobody can in any way audit the LLM itself. There are no true Open Source ones (and don't get me started on OSAID). So again, it barely matters.
It gets constrained in VMs and containers and treated like a third party.
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