Where can I buy dead peoples' butt casts?
Asking for a friend. In Minecraft.

Fun fact: The K in GNU stands for Kernel.

Gary

My PC shat the bed, I needed one RIGHT NOW for university, and a roommate gifted me an old tower with OpenSUSE installed.
I hated it and couldn't figure out how to install anything. But I was broke (as in, couldn't afford to eat every day). So I was stuck.
When I found out how the package manager works and how much software was available, I was blown away:
No hunting for software on the internet?
Everything is free?
No limited functionality or nagging reminders to upgrade to pro?
No searching through installer submenus to find all the checkmarks that install spyware?
Never looked back after that. The next year Ubuntu appeared, and blew my mind again.

No, the license violations are the main problem.
AI will steal all publicly visible code regardless of its license as "training data" and then put out the same code almost verbatim when asked to solve the same problem. And projects need to prevent that to avoid costly legal battles they can't afford.

A lot of open source development now is done by employees at big corps like IBM, Red Hat, Google and Microsoft.
Those companies heavily push towards using AI for development, some even enforcing it.
Will be interesting to see what happens when more and more OSS projects outright ban AI contributions, while more and more companies mandate using AI.

???
You don't need to take your company public, you know?
You can just stay its sole owner, then no one can force you to do anything with it (except for a judge).

No one forces you to sell shares.

Yeah I simplified it a bit cause I didn't want to open a can of dinosaurs.

No. Insects have 6 legs, spiders have 8.

If I was trying to gather US trade secrets, I'd have a few spies on payroll just hanging around airport bars listening in on phone calls.

Thank you for your service!