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raverbashing • today at 1:24 PM • 6 replies • view on HN

Cool, that's why open source projects get left behind. The attitude


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creata • today at 1:48 PM

I think it's better that some people have strong opinions. For example, the world would suck if everyone was rms, but he has nevertheless had a positive impact on the world imo.

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afavour • today at 1:38 PM

Someone can always fork it if they find themselves sufficiently outraged.

gorkish • today at 2:01 PM

Agree in general, though with Libreboot the pedantry is more or less the point of the project. You fork a project and put 'libre' in the name, I personally see that as a statement of dedication and expect you to stick to those guns. The experiment isnt much of an experiment otherwise.

Coreboot still exists.

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jamesnorden • today at 6:06 PM

Well, maybe you can bring it into the future with your favorite LLM!

ur-whale • today at 1:32 PM

> Cool, that's why open source projects get left behind. The attitude

They're making a political choice. It's a free country, and more power to them.

It's not a choice that I necessarily agree with, but one that may - who knows - prove prescient 5 years down the road.

No one can predict the future, that's what politics are partly about and the reason why diversity of opinion of choice matters.

Do you have a crystal ball?

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bigfishrunning • today at 1:55 PM

And yet people who are training models need more and more open source software to feed the beast. Quite the conundrum.