Pragmatism and Free Software

This is an excrept from the FSCI xmpp chat room discussing the philosophy behind ideology, pragmatism, and how free software deals with AI 2026-10-30 16:39:38 spaciouskarter78_: Debian went all in on AI thanks to one person. Somebody integrated LLM reviews to the NEW package queue. It’s opt out and the LLM sends you a review of your package when you upload it to the NEW queue. 2026-10-30 16:51:20 Pirate Pulawen: it is the dfsg team, each team makes their own decisions as GR did not forbid AI usage. 2026-10-30 16:56:24 Pirate Pulawen: the models used are open weigt (deepseek, qwen, glm) and hosted independently by Scaleway. So at least big tech dependency is removed, though other llm problems remain, like energy usage, possible bias (could be mitigated somewhat by using different models with different training data). Since it is not used for code generation, copyleft concern is not applicable. 2026-10-30 16:57:46 Pirate Pulawen: it is not one person, the policy was decided through a GR…