Seriously?

"Yes, there might be some value to a system that could be used for local LLM development, but we all know the big goal is to work well when using the big players like OpenAI and Anthropic, who aren't even close to Free Software."

Well, no, it really isn't.

You don't even have to buy our bona fides for this. Just ask yourself that: how does that help RH or IBM? RH / IBM don't have a good way to make money off people directly using frontier models from other companies.

RH *can* make money off people running models on hardware they control, so it makes sense that this is what RH would want to enable.

Aside from that, just look at the proposal; most of the concrete bits are ultimately about making CUDA work. Which you don't need at all if you're just going to have OpenAI / Anthropic run the model for you.

Finally, there's no need for an "objective" to make it possible to use model providers like OpenAI / Anthropic on Fedora. You already can. I mean, they're really just web services. There isn't really anything for operating system developers to *do* to enable the use of remote model providers. We already give you a network connection and a bunch of text editors and programming languages and shells and web browsers. What else would you need?