Many communities went back to IRC, though, because Matrix still is a hot mess, and the most visible ones which didn’t (Mozilla, KDE, …) are not hosting their own Matrix instance but letting New Vector do that for them, which makes in practice a disproportionate amount of users and accounts be managed by a single organization. I do think it’s better than discord, but barely so.

Don’t ever bring this to the people in charge or you might be told “sorry for that” “but now it’s been fixed, deployed any week now” “you are a liar, this has never been true” and “it doesn’t really matter for the general case” either in the same post or few responses apart. Matrix has been in a permanent state of unstable mess, and the leadership disingenuous attitude made me lose hope that this will ever change. More people should start reading through the fanfare and superlative blog posts, which, admittedly is the thing they do the best and much better than the other projects out there.

This isn’t the 70’s anymore, when the U.S. military last had an edge over the rest of the world on the subject. Now, every current device that support GPS also reads from GLONASS, Beidou and Galileo, which all offer better precision and accuracy thanks to their more recent design. GPS losing dominance is last-century news.

To cool down your boss, you can always tell him that he’s putting your company at great legal risk, there’s no reason to think that LLMs are not violating copyright laws and software licenses, and moreover the case might settle differently in different countries (in case you export your code).

Before this devolves into a flame war, here’s for you the introductory paragraph

Disclaimer: I’m aware that Richard Stallman had some questionable or inadequate behaviours. I’m not defending those nor the man himself. I’m not defending blindly following that particular human (nor any particular human). I’m defending a philosophy, not the philosopher. I claim that his historical vision and his original ideas are still adequate today. Maybe more than ever.

That said, I only see valid points here. For a long time, I too had a preference for MIT-style of licenses, thinking that they would “at least give a chance for a major business to embrace and extend, for the benefit of the open-source world”, win-win, right?

Fast-forward, it’s now pretty clear how the corporate world used the open-source movement to consolidate its monopoly, common good shouldn’t get privatized, and large corporations don’t have your best interest at heart.