Re: LLM usage in Debian -- ballot options comparison

On 2026-07-30 13:33, Aigars Mahinovs wrote:
> But what I wanted to pick up was the analogy with the free software
> movement. Free software did *not* succeed by absolutely rejecting all
> commercial software and non-free hardware from the onset. 

Huh -- until you mentioned this, it never even occurred to me that
someone, especially opponents to LLM use, might see this temporary
embrace of hosted LLMs as anything other than a phase.

I believe in a future with open and local LLMs, and most of my Debian
work over the past 5 years was devoted to FOSS that enables just
that.

And I think that fully open models are only a question of time. We even
had a talk about one at DebConf25 [1].

Best,
Christian

[1]:
https://debconf25.debconf.org/talks/117-apt-install-lucie-from-source-lucie-the-fully-libre-llm-you-can-build-hack-and-trust/