For a new golden age of FOSS(ogirardot.writizzy.com)
5 pointsby ssaboum4 hours ago1 comment
  • ssaboum4 hours ago
    Is AI the last stroke that will kill open source and free software maintainers ? It's clear the situation escalated quickly - but I'd argue that it can trigger a new golden age of Free and Open Source Software.
    • fsflover2 hours ago
      The problem is, AI removes the protections provided by (A)GPL: It learns exclusively from the free software and generates "unlicensed" code. AGPL is loosing its teeth.

      Commercial companies will even learn from your new, quickly growing, AI-accelerated codebase to release something better under a closed license. And your free software, although more efficiently growing, will stay even more behind its proprietary alternatives than before.

      • pu_pe2 hours ago
        Doesn't that cut both ways though? What prevents me from taking the code from dbt-fusion and AI-laundering it to include all the new features on a FOSS fork?
        • fsfloveran hour ago
          AFAIK AIs do not learn from the proprietary code.
      • ssaboum2 hours ago
        that's a good point - the reformulation from AI tools is as you say "eroding the teeth" of the GPL based solutions - but the cost to make these solutions is dramatically reduced.

        I'd even go further and say that the biggest problem of free software has always been the lack of frontend/designer willing to put in the contributions to make the UX a pleasant experience.

        I guess we could argue that with the frontend skills of recent models it's also getting better.

        Now the question will be after all that how much we will be willing to pay for a slightly better integrated experience ?