Proprietary vs open source models
Proprietary vs open source models
Posted May 26, 2026 12:53 UTC (Tue) by daenzer (subscriber, #7050)In reply to: Proprietary vs open source models by mpsk
Parent article: Reviewing kernel patches with LLMs
> Linux is a FOSS project itself; one could think it'd naturally prefer open solution over closed ones.
I for one would hope that should go without saying.
> [...] employing proprietary tools in the kernel development isn't anything new.
The only obvious thing that comes to mind is BitKeeper, which was a rather unpleasant experience. (One might argue that getting Git out of it was worth it, not sure we can expect something similar this time around though)
This quote from the article seems a propos:
> He said that Anthropic is willing to give tokens to kernel maintainers and, he believes, Google is also willing to do that.
Similarly, BitKeeper was giving away free licences to kernel developers for some time.