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"AI is gonne take our jobs." The AI: (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 day ago by Loner to c/[email protected]

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[–] pivot_root 6 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (2 children)

The people that typically hate LLMs (AI) are the same people that don't mind developers flooding the market with 'free software' (which can thwart real competition, not just reduce paying jobs).

And "fuck the free market" while we're at it, am I right?

The only people who hate free software are those who either can't compete in quality with FOSS offerings, or have something to gain through vendor lock-in. And neither of those are beneficial for anybody other than the software vendor.

[–] madthumbs -1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Vendor lock in is a myth. Vendors stopped selling Linux pre-installed because it cost them more in returns and support. -Take a look at those prices on vendors that sell laptops with it. Linux users will also likely choose a different distro anyway.

Older people tend to know better the evils of communism and don't need to be developers to be against FOSS.

[–] pivot_root 1 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Vendor lock in is a myth.

You've never worked in a company stuck using Oracle software or AWS, have you?

Vendors stopped selling Linux pre-installed because it cost them more in returns and support.

Hmm... consumers buying products inadequately explained to them and returning them because they can't run the Windows-only software they're expecting and already familiar with. Sounds a bit like lock-in, doesn't it?

Older people tend to know better the evils of communism and don't need to be developers to be against FOSS.

"FOSS = communism = bad" and
"I'm older and therefore correct"

Yeah, I'm not even going to dignify that asinine take by responding to it. Enjoy your proprietary software.

[–] madthumbs -4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

You didn't pay for or invest your time in software development did you?

[–] pivot_root 2 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

You would be mistaken, then.