I don't see the point of romanticizing the scene as preserving some "pure" hacker ethos and conflating it with FOSS.

I'd rather use some free and open source software I can audit and trust rather than some pirated shit some company built.

FOSS creates sustainable value. Companies can build businesses around FOSS through services, support, hosting, and custom development. The scene creates nothing, they don't promote standards, don't think of interoperability and so on.

The internet and the very service you're using run on open source software. The people that build them have values and I don't think at any point they thought of creating something for LLMs to train on - that's like the dumbest conspiracy theory I've read since a long time and it doesn't even make sense timeline-wise.

The original FOSS licenses were designed to restrict corporate exploitation, not enable it (even if you have some more permissive licenses that make more sense to be used in a enterprise context), but it was promoted because it worked better and created value.

Would you say the same thing to an artist that freely shared his art and see his work copied in the output of some generative ai tool? That would be victim-blaming

Excuse the possibly stupid question, but I see it's using swi-prolog. So it's some kind of tool to test hypotheses using prolog but somewhat enhanced by machine learning? I guess I'd need to read the paper, just not sure this is within my reach 😅 Just did a bit of prolog at the university (which was a blast)

Vert is amazing, thanks!