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The spirit of free software is about learning from others and having control of your hardware.

Given the supposed commoditization of intelligence and recent memory prices, I'd say LLMs are literally anathema to the spirit of the GPL.



I don't think "you own your own hardware" will be true for long.

Spirits don't get much legal protection.


If LLMs are as good at RE as everyone says, we will own our hardware again.


You'd have to build your own fab from ground up - meaning no ASML. Is not going to happen.


You don't have to own the entire pipeline to own enough of it. People run Linux and say they own their OS.


They used to. We used to call those spirits "rights".




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