You’re licking the boots of a company that uses the work of others without compensation or credit then sells it back to you at a premium. This is the exact behavior the GPL license aimed to prevent. I have nothing against the technology if it’s made with permission and benefits the people it depends on, but that’s clearly not the case here.

Ludites are an apt comparison. The Luddites fought to protect their industry from industrialists who aimed to replace them with cheap, low skilled and child labour. The goal of AI isn’t advancement it’s replacement, and most of the companies pushing it are transparent about that.

You can’t larp about using opensource software while creating memes using closed source garbage.

They’ll sell each of them off to be run into the ground by some other billionaires. Both are heavily subsidized by Google’s ad business which is still somewhat unobtrusive up front. As much as Google’s services have degraded, it will be much worse with another company at the helm trying to squeeze as much value out of their investment as possible.

This will be the subprime mortgage crisis of the 2020s.

What’s the deal with Alpine not using GNU? Is it a technical or ideological thing? Or is it another “because we can” type distro?