Thanks for the compliment, anon <3
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Yorik van Havre
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@OpenSoul@mastodon.social agree totally... I'm honestly surprised how it's still possible to just deny all environment harm today.
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There is no value in accepting AI-made PRs in a #FOSS project. It only adds bloat, same as it is doing with the whole internet.
#FreeCAD is once again participating to Google Summer Of Code! If you are into coding, and interested in spending part of your summer months coding for FreeCAD (paid by Google and mentored by us), head to https://summerofcode.withgoogle.com/programs/2026/organizations/freecad !
Many people pushing to use AI tools in FOSS projects around... The environmental issue of course, but also to just swallow big techs's shit, to ignore the authorship/licensing/ethical issues, all that would be the opposite of what a FOSS project thrives to do. Aside from that, instead giving money to AI tools, why not pay a real person to help. Anybody is free do whatever they want at home of course (and deal with their conscience 😅), but my opinion is this just cannot be done as a FOSS project.
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@brunopostle that's what we tried to do with @freecad contributing policy.. I'd have liked something stronger, but it works. We tried basically to concentrate on the effects of AI we did not want
@neil@mastodon.neilzone.co.uk speaking as a @freecad@social.freecad.org maintainer, our problem is not really money. We have enough to pay a lawyer in case we need it, and smaller projects are much less likely to need a lawyer (you do that basically for heavier problems that involve money). Our main problem is actually to find local lawyers who know about FOSS and are willing to work in that context. The few that do are mostly expensive international firms...
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@tiberiustribun @claudius most of the flagship features of the link branch have been ported to main... I would bet all your files can be rescued, maybe needing a small surgery (open the file with a text editor and adjust some values). People on the FreeCAD forum can certainly help. Regarding addons, going to the addon page/repo and signalling what does not work or suggest feature improvements can sometimes help tremendously ;)
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@MisterMaker https://opensourceready.substack.com/p/there-is-no-open-source-ai ;) tl;dr there are many open-source LLM engines, but none can work without the data, always and only obtained "by any means available" by big tech. The code of an LLM is often the least important part and can be done in 200 lines of python http://karpathy.github.io/2026/02/12/microgpt/
