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do LLMs destroy open source? (lemmy.zip)
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Here and there are posts about tailwind losing its revenue stream. And then people / post authors conclude open source is lost and spread FUD.

Do you think your projects die because of LLMs?

I only have public hobby projects, I am not afraid. I also try to donate to a lot of free software that I use or like.

E.g. this https://programming.dev/post/43810907 or https://programming.dev/post/45292081

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[–] CanadaPlus 5 points 3 days ago (2 children)

But it's actually grown. It fully didn't exist 70 years ago.

[–] cockmushroom@reddthat.com 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Neither did portable software

[–] CanadaPlus 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Sure?

[–] cockmushroom@reddthat.com 1 points 14 hours ago

What purpose would it serve to share the source to programs that people couldn't use? And how would they have distributed it back then?

[–] Randomgal@lemmy.ca 1 points 2 days ago

It's about to not exist again so...