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This is actually one of the best things of this year. First they shit on adobe and now Microsoft, the two most hated and worst hurdles in the way of people switching to Linux. I’m actually predicting that there will be regulations now by the government over this stuff (it won’t work or do anything of course because it’s not even touching their code base) since our government loves money and corporations more than humans.
what is this referring to?
The ArtCraft suite.
Someone has been creating open source clones of the most popular industry standard programs that have been enshitified to oblivion like Adobe Photoshop and Microsoft Office. They're free and open source. I don't think they're nearly as bad as what the meme suggest. They do work from what I can tell although some features appear to be missing. And since they're open source if anything needs fixed it will be fixed in the future.
I have played around in it for a few minutes and so far I'm impressed. The file size is tiny by modern standards. It loads super fast, is responsive, much better than the enshitified crap that is the "real" MS Word from what I can see. It is missing some of the more advanced features but most people won't be using them. What's there seems to be functional enough that a lot of people wouldn't even see a drawback.
I played around with the photoshop clone as well. I'm not 100% familiar with the modern photoshop since I use Krita for most of my needs but I've been able to do a few basic things to test out like drawing, filling, transforming an image, warping text and things like that and haven't found anything broken so far.
I hate AI but anything that pries away the enshitifying grip the likes of Adobe, Microsoft and Autodesk have on the industry I'll welcome.
It’s definitely vibe coded, you’re in a hive mind that assumes nothing has changed since gpt3.
I hate what ai is, but I’m not stupid enough to think it’s not good at churning out good code at this point, my ethics still tell me to never use ai again and to runaway from the entire industry at this point.
Remember if the OSI/FSF actually cared about the gas generators/theft/Palantir, anti LLM amendments would be introduced in GPLv4 & Apache v3 & BSDv7.
Remember if the OSI/FSF actually cared about the gas generators/theft/Palantir, anti LLM amendments would be introduced in GPLv4 & Apache v3 & BSDv7.
They freak out every time such possibilities are discussed, like "oh, no, the freedom number 0, that won't be open source", but I ask myself who decides what open source is. if it's something really community-based, the community must be able to have a say in such matters, but they're always dismissed, in favor of what a small group decided a few decades ago and imposes on us without any margin of popular participation
Be the change you want to see https://github.com/non-ai-licenses/non-ai-licenses
I’m out for it as a profession the industry has made clear it’s ethics.
Edit: Here’s another that prohibits LLM usage not just training https://ihateailicense.eu/
Thanks for the link. I got an interest in licences that add restrictions to current open source ones
That's just licenses to prevent use in training data, but other LLM related use is unspecified.
Thanks I’ve added another that does, I thought restrictions on training would include the moment Claude reads the code for modifications too but looking further I think you’re right.
Do windows next! WA and IG too! Might as well go whole hog on the corpos.
They need to implement the rest of the Wine stub functions. That would make it 100% compatible with windows applications...
Nah, that would be productive and not flashy enough for a publicity stunt.
I see it as a proof of concept. Whether these products deliver or not doesnt matter. What matters is components within proprietary tools can now be replicated in a fast and effective way.
Not everything from AI is slop. AI in the hands of good developers can be powerful and help make open source projects more productive. It needs careful governance and quality control, but this kind of stuff helps level the playing field as resource limited projects can do more with what they've got.