Human stewardship matters more than who typed the code
Human stewardship matters more than who typed the code
Posted Jul 25, 2026 21:01 UTC (Sat) by rbranco (subscriber, #129813)In reply to: Human stewardship matters more than who typed the code by emk
Parent article: Codeberg: Protecting our FLOSS commons from LLMs
None of that matters to the upper-middle-class, college-educated Xennials from rich countries in Western Europe & North America. They're privileged enough to externalize their morals onto others. The ban on cryptocurrency projects shows they're way out of touch with the reality in other countries where this is the only way to earn money and to avoid hyperinflation. They're a tiny but noisy minority.
> When I got involved in free software several decades ago, that was originally the dream: Users in control of their own systems, with the freedom to change things! But now there's apparently a political movement in the "open source" community which is aggressively criticizing these users for figuring out a way to put together custom tools.
The good fight will be about having open models and bringing down hardware prices! Everything else is noise and burying one's head in the sand. But this fight can only be won by pragmatic people who are not afraid of getting their hands dirty, not a hipster commune of unpolluted monks.
