I know we are defed’d from them but I couldn’t resist the urge to share this absolutely uproarious chudpost from world.
https://lemmy.world/comment/7020579
Meta will become the champion of Open Source and near completely become as known for it as Google was in the mid to late 00’s. They will dominate AI to such an extent Facebook will be the inbred backwater project that no one thinks about when the name Meta pops up. I know it’s hard to swallow and believe right now, but the Zuck isn’t the driver that matters here. Yann LeCun is the person behind Meta AI and he is Bell Labs alumni beating the war drum of open source for market leadership, not monopoly, just leadership. The majority of the digital age exists on those credentials; a Bell Labs alumni pushing Open Source. That is worth betting big on IMO.
It may take a couple hundred years, but AGI lead government is coming, once conservative stupidity fades. A politician with infinite persistence and fractal attention is far better than anything finite corruptible humans with tiny attention spans can offer the public.
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Open Source (as a movement) is liberal cope. Richard Stallman was absolutely right when he wrote that Open Source would create ideological chuds like these. The worst thing is that these type of people invade Linux/hacker spaces and you're stuck arguing with them about the merits of ChatGPT or Photoshop or whatever pointless techbro thing that's on their mind. They're also socially conservative and will go out of their way to make the space unsafe for everyone.
FOSS is revisionist. In my experience, trying to tie these two groups of thought was a horrible idea. Say one or the other and commit to it, and I hope you will choose free (libre) software instead of people who can't imagine a world beyond GitHub Copilot.
Sorry for the rant, but it's just infuriating sometimes and I can't let it out normally because I'll just be called a purist.
Thankfully there are some bright exceptions within the FOSS community like the Lemmy devs