Lars Marowsky-Brée on Free, Libre, and Open Source, Software Engineering, and IT
Learning about a new license Liam Proven brought the Baba Yaga license to my attention via Mastodon . (The field of endeavor and non-commercial restrictions alas will prevent this brilliant piece of work from being widely adopted, which is a shame.) In an thread with Alan Cox , he and I came up with two additional stanzas to incorporate attribution and warranty exclusions. While I am unsure…
The Difficulty of Polarized Discourse Generative AI, particularly LLMs, is very difficult to converse about, unless you managed to find a rare group of people open to dialogue. If you imply LLMs have any value rather than outright condemning them, the people fundamentally opposed to them will throw you in with the hypists and slopsters. If you want to discuss their limits and constraints instead…
TL;DR Free, Libre, and Open Source freedoms, when treated as dogma, do harm. To truly serve our values, the "open" software community must not only do more but differently. Introduction In 2012, I spent May Day (of all days) as a speaker and attendee at the Linux Foundation's Enterprise End User Summit in New York, hosted at the New York Stock Exchange. On my way to the venue, we had to pass…
Introduction Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML), such as Generative AI and Large Language Models (LLMs), have, for better or worse, a growing impact in shaping critical societal outcomes; from healthcare via finance to public safety in general (consider self-driving cars) - as well as in our every day lives as individuals. Without openness and transparency, AI could perpetuate…
Welcome Welcome to my - Lars Marowsky-Brée's - new site! My aim is to complement my social media and other channels with more Free, Libre, Open Source, IT, tech focused content, as explained on the about page in more detail. Tech stack I need the barrier to writing and posting an article to be reasonably low, and I have very low requirements on functionality, features, and design. Hence, this…