• recarsion@discuss.tchncs.de
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    6 days ago

    A threat? They will be more than happy to take work done for free and use it for their own needs. I guess at least if it’s a copyleft license they can’t just outright steal it.

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      5 days ago

      All the big tech companies are built on open source projects… No idea what the guy you replied to was on about.

      Any useful thing you code will be used to feed the beast.

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        5 days ago

        Company: “buy this code from us” Consumer: “no, the guy you stole from is giving it away for free. We’ll take from him directly and cut you out.” Company: Vaderno.wav

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      5 days ago

      If the code is GPL they’ll generally be scared to use it. I agree with you for non-copyleft open source though

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        5 days ago

        Yep, corporate software developer here and they’re scared shitless of incorporating anything gpl’d.

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        When all the valuable code is free, the price of valuable code will be 0.

        People will only profit from the value of the code, not the creation/ownership of the code itself. LLMs seem like they’re dropping the cost of code creation significantly (50-90% so far)… impacted players should plan accordingly.

        It’s a fundamentally different model, not a broken one. It will break a lot of businesses if they don’t adapt.

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      5 days ago

      wait… it will be a matter of national security and like you know “you and what army”

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        5 days ago

        Yeah, I thought that foolishness was behind us with the crypto export impossible to enforce rules, but it’s baaaack with AI.