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greyw • today at 3:17 PM • 8 replies • view on HN

OpenBSD will probably fall even further behind


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vdombr • today at 3:39 PM

Yeah, they won't have a chance to rewrite cp and mv in Rust.

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Krssst • today at 4:13 PM

There are already OSes that include LLM code (such as Linux). It's fine to have a few that don't.

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saidnooneever • today at 9:46 PM

openBSD is ahead. depending on what u need. If u want a PC with tons of apps and even more security issues by all means, they are far behind ;).

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freedomben • today at 3:31 PM

Yep, drivers are one of if not the biggest blocker in my experience, and that's an area AI can help immensely

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acedTrex • today at 7:43 PM

Excellent, it will remain stable

lioeters • today at 6:22 PM

Good.

shevy-java • today at 4:06 PM

Well, they were always slow. But they made a stand against AI slop, which is great. Look at how AI slop infiltrated the ruby core team. You even get slop-spammed down when you try to interact with e. g. Hiroshi Shibata, who suddenly has ... perfect english language skills. A few years ago his command over the english language was rather weak (which is fine by the way, I much prefer broken english from a real human than AI slop spam text as filter acting in between humans).

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noosphr • today at 3:40 PM

If you don't break the law you do indeed fall further behind people who do.

Nothing in that post is against using an LLM. It's all about copyright:

>Since every file in OpenBSD has been continually verified to ensure correct Copyright, and we've even deleted code which has incorrect Copyright, the chances of us accepting such new code with such a suspicious Copyright situation is zero.

Once the current bubble pops we're going to see a lot of litigation over copyright enfringement by LLMs. Currently no one wants to rock the boat because everyone hopes to make a trillion dollars from AI, Oracle included, once they see they can't the knives are going to come out and I wouldn't want to be Linux at that point: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_LLC_v._Oracle_America

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