AI or proprietary software? [LWN.net]

AI or proprietary software?

Posted May 14, 2026 10:55 UTC (Thu) by stefanha (subscriber, #55072)
Parent article: Friction in Fedora over AI developer desktop initiative

The discussion about the pros and cons of AI is a distraction. There is already plenty of open source and proprietary AI software that runs fine on Fedora.

This Fedora AI Desktop sounds like a vehicle to ship the worst of the worst proprietary software that is so invasive that it doesn't even work reliably on vanilla Fedora.

Enabling this kind of software is not in the long term interest of Fedora because it encourages the creation of more of this kind of software to the detriment of users and the open source community.

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AI or proprietary software?

Posted May 14, 2026 14:09 UTC (Thu) by bferrell (subscriber, #624) [Link] (1 responses)

Yes, plenty does already work... With "tedious configuration".
Go back to the beginning. The intent is to eliminate that "tedious configuration".

AI is simply the current "evil" bugaboo. Unleash the evil?!!?! Oh nooooosssss!!!!!

AI or proprietary software?

Posted May 14, 2026 21:31 UTC (Thu) by stefanha (subscriber, #55072) [Link]

> AI is simply the current "evil" bugaboo. Unleash the evil?!!?! Oh nooooosssss!!!!!

You didn't read my comment. It's not about AI.