Well, we have used C/C++ in applications instead of higher-level languages. AI could atleast be used to port them, even to, say, a slightly higher-level language like Vala for GNOME apps. Automating the putting of lipstick on a pig and the fattening of pigs isn’t very useful if horses are the better choice.

Your point seems to be “open-source-with-monetization now has a problem, but altruistic-source doesn’t”. Maybe the linked blog was that narrow in focus on open-source, and you force-expanded it to altruistic-source.

I think projects with principles are in the same quandry as those with a monetization objective. Software under GPL-like licenses has a problem, LLMs slurp up Linux and GCC source code and spit out non-compliant derivative work. It is no longer possible to promote principles by contributing in the open. There is also no hope of software authors winning damages from companies the way book authors seem to have won in court.

This should be grounds for prosecution as phishing, right?

Do commercial apps work on such an installation? I have seen them get worse, checking for non-rooted, non-developer-mode-enabled, Google Play Store enabled, etc.

More like a vocal minority, I’d guess. Its upto the majority to also be vocal.

Also, which native UIs do people like coding up? Most UI toolkits have JS bindings, don’t they? So only HTML/CSS is the bad fit?

They also bought the Bun JS company, didn’t they? Maybe they actually can improve the spp a bit by replacing Node with Bun.

Go landfills!

There has been the “4opens” criteria, that has been more on point than free/libre/open source.

In hindsight, defeating corporate and AI piggery might have needed single-maintainer closed source with open protocols. Software components? Maybe it would have led to the compound document model instead of the app model, architecturally enforcing openness.

“The code I produce using AI is mine.”

Isn’t it actually of the people on whose code the LLM was trained on?

Delta chat uses e-mail securely https://delta.chat/

I think it is intellectual laziness to do Python just for its ecosystem when saner options abound.

hmm. Are you atleast getting credit for fixing all that?