NetBSD seems to be thriving of late: as the Linux world goes pro-AI, some of the AI-averse are turning to this explicitly AI-free project.
The NetBSD project’s Mastodon feed reports that it received a record 120 donations last month, and it has far exceeded its target:
“We received $120,282 USD in total. Naturally, this has completely filled up our donations target bar which was set at $50,000. Time to fund some projects!”
It’s a welcome contrast to the usual stories of under-funded FOSS projects, and it follows a visible uptick in people asking about NetBSD in the FOSS Unix groups we read, ever since Emperor Penguin Torvalds said that Linux was not an anti-AI project back in July, and the following month, the Debian project polled its developers on AI use, and they chose to permit AI-generated contributions.
So you make a category of games to download and you exclude Rogue from the rogue-likes because? Why can’t a thing be like itself?
Am I my father? Definitely not, but I still look a lot like him, have some of his mannerisms etc etc.
Also, I’m being pedantic right now for the sake of it haha.
In the end it doesn’t really matter that much ;)
It’s fun to think about!