Programmer Humor

Public domain ≠ FOSS

Stallman: "Oh man, not like this."

Is Windows FOSS now?

Ew, no, thank you, I don't want it.

I had a similar thought. If LLMs and image models do not violate copyright, they could be used to copyright-wash everything.

Just train a model on source code of the company you work for or the copyright protected material you have access to, release that model publicly and then let a friend use it to reproduce the secret, copyright protected work.

windows would be OSS, not FOSS.

how can you tell if it's AI generated? you can't

Anything built by AI/LLMs should be FOSS by law. Oh I dream of the day.

That's terrible news. There's no way I want my code to be open source. Then other people would see just how much spaghetti you can have in a codebase and still have it run.

Oh darn, our CEO told us to use LLMs to write all this code, and now the good parts might be used for something that helps people. Not our copyrights!

windows engineers have probably been copying snippets from stackoverflow for decades, which may have been copied from the kernel or some other copyleft product

Windows is not even source-available. Windows XP is source-unintentionally-available thanks to a leak but there's no AI loophole in that.

There's still copyrighted code in windows, so no this is bullshit.

Code contains a lot of elements that are not copyrightable (elementary maths etc), that does not prevent the overall program from being copyrighted.