For a new golden age of FOSS

For a new golden age of FOSS(ogirardot.writizzy.com)

7 points by ssaboum 207 days ago | 12 comments

ssaboum 207 days 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.

fsflover 207 days 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.

ssaboum 207 days 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 ?

pu_pe 207 days 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?