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PorkrollPosadistporkroll@matapacos.dog
Sep 22, 2026, 9:04 PM
These corporations can pay people to develop Free Software. They do in many cases. And when you are paying someone to do the work, you can dictate the conditions and practices of that work (e.g. If you're not using Copilot, you will be replaced by someone who will gladly shit out 100x as much code as you).
But an innumerable amount of responsibilities in the Free Software world are not paid. And you can't force a volunteer to use LLMs if they are convinced it is a socially and ecologically poisonous technology.
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PorkrollPosadistporkroll@matapacos.dog
Sep 22, 2026, 9:23 PM
That ultimately is what this is all about. The fact that Free Software projects exist which will not accept these labor practices means that there are now some substantial pieces missing from the stack. The fact that the average software company has transformed all of their software engineers into LLM zombies means there are a lot of projects which will no longer accept their contributions. You can't simply pay them to land a patch in (many components of) GNOME anymore (for instance).
They need to recuperate the tech stack and plug these holes. That is the point of throwing millions of dollars at a vibe-coded fashslop dotfiles distro.
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PorkrollPosadistporkroll@matapacos.dog
Sep 22, 2026, 9:44 PM
From their perspective, any project which digs in against LLM contributions needs to be either forked or replaced (or infiltrated, or taken over). This is a campaign which requires a war chest, the veneer of an auteur's opinionated vision, as well as an army of goons.
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