It seems Linus’s position is very clear now

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    14 hours ago

    Linux Foundation has financial backers. He’s gotta give them lip service to keep them excited and happy. Anthropic is now a Gold Member. Oracle, Microsoft, Google, Meta, Amazon are all Platinum Members.

    FOSS has always been subject to corporate meddling in their governance. There’s a reason we call it Linux and not GNU-Linux. GNU gets no money so GNU goes nowhere.

    Linus gives a headline using agents, Linux gets millions to continue doing real work. That’s the game they are playing, for better or worse.

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      4 hours ago

      Linus regularly posted on Google+, it’s more like he himself isn’t that into foss and sees everything as a utility to use

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      Nobody can prove this is the case. Linus sees coding LLMs as an inevitable evolution and compares them to what compilers were for Assembly.

      I don’t personally think this particular use of LLMs is unethical, but using open models would definitely improve the look.