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Yup, and this is precisely why it was such a monumental mistake to move away from GPL style copyleft to permissive licenses. All that achieved was to allow corporations to freeload.

Whose domestic capacity?

I very much agree there, but think of how much worse it would be if we were stuck dealing with proprietary corporate tech instead.

How is that wishful thinking? Open models are advancing just as fast as proprietary ones and they're now getting much wider usage as well. There are also economic drivers that favor open models even within commercial enterprise. For example, here's Airbnb CEO saying they prefer using Qwen to OpenAI because it's more customizable and cheaper

“We’re relying a lot on Alibaba’s Qwen model. It’s very good. It’s also fast and cheap,” he said. “We use OpenAI’s latest models, but we typically don’t use them that much in production because there are faster and cheaper models.”

I expect that we'll see exact same thing happening as we see with Linux based infrastructure muscling out proprietary stuff like Windows servers and Unix. Open models will become foundational building blocks that people build stuff on top of.

O7

we can only hope

The real friends were the internal dilemmas we made along the way.

Not if we have a nuclear winter first.

That's precisely why I expect NATO is going to fall apart in the end. It's going to be really hard to justify austerity to ramp up military spending when there's no credible threat.

A Canticle for Leibowitz is turning out to be prophetic.

I'm not holding my breath either

freelance troll for piefed.social 🤔

clearly their values don't include basic human rights, so that of itself says all we need to know about the fascist organization that is the EU

Europe is pretty much entirely dependent on US platforms having failed to develop their own the way China and Russia did. There's no European Yandex or Baidu equivalent, no European Alibaba, and so on.

fascist

Cowbee nailed the core distinctions, but let me add that open source provides a living counter argument to the deeply ingrained dogma that capitalist hierarchies and profit incentives are the only way to organize labor and drive innovation. It's a useful tool for talking about alternative ways to organize labor to people who've been indoctrinated into capitalist way of thinking.

Every day, developers around the world contribute to projects like Linux or Wikipedia without a single dollar changing hands. They collaborate, debug, and build for shared purpose, recognition, or pure intellectual curiosity. This isn’t a fringe phenomenon either, it’s a massive, global ecosystem that produces tools and systems entire industries rely on.

Open source demonstrates that people don’t need to be managed by shareholders or driven by personal profit to create complex and valuable things. Workers can self organize efficiently all on their own. Different projects and communities manage to interoperate and thrive organically within this framework.

So open source stands as a direct and tangible refutation to the argument that without capitalism nothing would get done. It’s concrete proof that cooperation can fuel advancement and that we’ve been sold a story about work and motivation that is fundamentally flawed.

Oh boy, I'm sure the EU, champions of human rights, will condemn this blatant attack on the fundamental rights of Russian language speakers in Latvia any second now.

A few more

• The US withdraws from NATO causing it to fall apart
• The US annexes Greenland
• The US invades Venezuela
• A country exits the EU
• A major financial crash in the west
• Israel and the US attack Iran
• Far right parties form governments in major European countries
• Organized resistance of the AFU collapses
• Ukraine goes bankrupt due to insufficient funding from the west
• There's a major break up between the US and Europe

maybe it's a vacuum lifter :)