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gchamonlivetoday at 10:38 AM1 replyview on HN

It's not the prerogative of the lib provider to dictate which tech I'm going to use. Now it's LLMs and since this is a divisive topic because of the layoffs and intellectual properterty theft used to train the model people side with the maintainer. Just imagine, what if instead of LLM the author made their libs erase your project if you used NVidia? Sure NVidia is a shitty company with shitty anti-consumer practices, but why should the consumer be penalized? If I want to use qwen3.6 locally in my inference rig to crunch code I'm totally in my right. This is just childish.


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torben-friistoday at 10:50 AM

I don't see it as fundamentally different to licences dictating personal vs commercial use, requiring attribution, etc.

People share their intellectual property however they see fit.

That's speaking about the general principle, I'm not discussing the specific actions taken by the link's author.

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