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Linus and Linux as a political tool (jeferson.me)
submitted 4 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) by to c/technology@lemmy.world
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In my view, all software is political in one way or another. Also, when software makes an attempt to be "politically neutral", in doing so it is making a political point.

So let's pick the Linus questionable part regarding the not a Social Warrior place, and I feel that it is time to either think about it or talk about it.

All feedback is welcomed.

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[–] -1 points 4 days ago (17 children)

You got the feedback as the score under this post.

This statement makes no sense.

If "attempt to be politically neutral" is political, then actually getting up from the bed in the morning can be a political statement as well. Did you consider that some people just like to make things?

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  • [–] 13 points 4 days ago (14 children)

    Yeah no. I don't think there's much value to arguing with you, but when there's an oppressor and an oppressed, "doing nothing" and "letting things be" is not neutral.

    For "doing nothing" to be neutral, you have to believe the world is Just, as it is now. Do you?

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  • [–] [S] 8 points 4 days ago (1 child)

    Just to say, the more you read about politics, sociology and philosophy, harder it gets to show this type of edge connections from topics that aren't in the center... at least this is how I feel.

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  • [–] -3 points 4 days ago* (7 children)

    Not taking action is axiomatically “nuetral”, no matter the state of things otherwise. Maybe not defensible, but neutral nevertheless.

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  • [–] -3 points 4 days ago (6 children)

    Are you that mad that he's allowing AI code?

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  • [–] [S] 2 points 4 days ago

    I'm sure, you didn't read a single line in this post. So sad. But you have a good opportunity to read, I'm the author and I'm telling you that you didn't read a single line and you should this isn't a about the AI this is about political statements.

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  • [–] 1 point 4 days ago (4 children)

    Not mad at all? That seems nonsequitur.

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  • [–] -4 points 4 days ago (3 children)

    Idk. This thread is garbage. Dude is saying he feels oppressed because Linus is allowing some AI code into the Linux kernel.

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  • [–] 2 points 4 days ago (1 child)

    It's the weakest of weak arguments. But they aren't technically wrong. Though I don't agree with the fervor their chasing this with. If there is one field where AI might make some sense. It is coding Etc. Unfortunately, likely at the moment they are still using large commercial models such as Claude etc. Run by exploitative oligarchs. That said, if you want someone to displace the exploitative oligarchs. People like Torvald are exactly the sort of people you need. They know exactly how exploitative the tech Giants are. And are developing platform and systems that will be capable of replacing them. While being capable of being much more ethical, sustainable, and available. It's kind of their whole thing for 40 years or so.

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  • [–] [S] 2 points 3 days ago

    I do agree in certain point. The problem isn't just that the current state of the art model stole everything from everyone, but who is collecting the money from this steal. If the models were fully open (training data + bias + models + instructions sets...) the "stealing from the open public" could be... accepted...

    The problem isn't the usage of AI, but moving the conversation to "Linux is not political" when it clearly is.

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  • [–] [S] 3 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

    Funny that a "plus/minus" changes how you see the post. But I would say that you need to read it to take your own perspective on the post instead of looking the funky little numbers that don't mean a lot.

    Ps.: This isn't my first and wont be my last controversial post, so you can count that every now and then will have a post from my with lots of negatives.

    Edit: Funny that from what I can see it's a 40%/60% ratio. Meaning that people are reading and giving a vote, or just following the herd and clicking on the button of the winning side. I wish I could have the time for each vote to make a more in depth view of it.

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