Well thought out and sensible position overall [LWN.net]

Well thought out and sensible position overall

Posted Apr 27, 2026 14:57 UTC (Mon) by ballombe (subscriber, #9523)
In reply to: Well thought out and sensible position overall by bluca
Parent article: The future of AI in Ubuntu

If you look carefully, it is worded in a way that does not promise anything.

" The bottom line is that Canonical is ramping up its use of AI tools in a focused and principled manner that favours open weight models with license terms that feel most compatible with our values, combined with open source harnesses."

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Well thought out and sensible position overall

Posted Apr 27, 2026 15:17 UTC (Mon) by mvollrath (subscriber, #183387) [Link]

I don't believe that it's a VP of Engineering's place to make promises about what will be in the product, but at least they're demonstrating that they understand the problems of integrating this new class of tools and are sympathetic to what I expect are the ideals of the community. The audience of this press release are not necessarily the people who need convincing to influence the outcome. If e.g. Anthropic or OpenAI want to shovel money into Canonical to promote their brand, it's a business decision and a problem for engineering to solve.