MIT is _much_ more permissible than GPLv3. I can entirely understand Ubuntu jumping on a change of software, which does the exact same thing, but under a license which is more favorable for corporations.

That uutils is written in rust, is all a happy coincidence. Security issues aside, with MIT code they can do whatever they want, GPLv3 has all kinds of inconvenient consequences when they work on it. Some of them, I think, a company would be _very_ unhappy with.

I wouldn't be amazed if Canonical wants to be rid of everything GNU from their core OS somewhere in the future, simply because of the license.

That something is written in rust, doesn't automatically mean it's better. Also, as older does not automatically mean better, so does newer not automatically mean better.

They are FEATURES designed to share all your data with the entire world. People just need to figure out how.

Guess what? Now the essay you generated for school, now has a tell-tale sign that it's generated by AI. It makes it easier for your teacher to give you a failing grade.

Guess what? The book you entirely "wrote" with AI, now contains tell-tale signs your publisher will easily find, so they can blacklist you.

Guess what? Vibe coders are more easily caught in the act.

In general this is a really good thing.

The links in the article link to a previous article on /. and to an article on the verge. None of which has a link to the actual order.

Any bets? The eating of documents? Confidential work documents all of a sudden being suggested to your son preparing a presentation for school?

Anybody got any other ideas?

...that this will serve to drive off customers?

Art ought to be human work. When the majority of a work is generated by a computer it's a bad thing.

Electric guitars, synthesizers and such still qualify, because the it's the human doing the majority of the effort, the machine is just mindlessly producing sounds in accordance to what the human wants.

It becomes different when the human says: "Ok, AI, I want a catchy song about stars," and out pops a complete song with lyrics, beats, riffs, and a guitar solo. Where is the human effort in this?

...had a wonderful solution for people like these.

And then readers will refuse to read their books, because LLMs can't replicate the human and the book reads like it has been written by a machine â" which it actually was, at least partially.

Even something as simple as a name can be a dead giveaway.

AI stories, or stories where the author... Errr... Faker "only" used the AI in things like outlining, are a million a dozen. They're not unique, not even in their execution.

It may seem like a good thing that apple has this single app store for all of its devices, but the reality is that it is a monopoly. Monopolies tend to be a really bad thing for markets. If allowed to continue, monopolies tend to harm competition badly. Thing is, that they've got a solid revenue stream and nobody else even has a hope of getting a fair shot at obtaining a big enough chunk of the market to make them matter. The monopoly could also dictate unreasonable terms to people wanting to make use of their system.

Apple, for example, has been demanding a 30% commission from paid apps, subscriptions must be handled via its payment platform (again, with this 30% commission), and, oh yes, if Apple decides to compete with your app, you've already lost because they don't have to pay that 30% commission to themselves and they just preinstall their competing app with the next update.

This allowed them to branch out in other markets, competing under favorable terms with others. They're, for example, competing with Netflix and Spotify. While those are established brands in their respective markets. At the same time Apple does not want to be compatible with Android, it's only so because it was forced to be through anti-trust action.

Another monopoly is Microsoft. It used its dominant position on the desktop to push all competition to the point of irrelevance. Dr.DOS, Netscape, and Be Inc. (BeOS) come to mind here. Also, it is bending over backwards to make sure its office products are incompatible with the rest of the world.

In what universe?

The EU is a bigger market than the USA, you know.

Monopolies have always been illegal and should be appropriately dealt with.

A lot of the monopolies in tech benefit the USA a lot, but basically suck the rest of the world dry. Go to a given website: it's AWS; search for anything: one way or the other, it's Google (Alphabet); The dominant desktop OS in the world: Windows (Microsoft). All of this has lead to significant harm to the competition, no matter where they come from. Worse, they invade adjacent markets and suck the life out of those. So, yes, monopolies ought to be dealt with.

Who actually owns AND DAILY DRIVES an Ubuntu Phone? Sailfish anyone? Yeah, that's because of the Google/Apple duopoly.
Ok, Social media than: anybody got family members even familiar with any alternatives to facebook/instagram/X? Anybody familiar with Mastodon here?
Let's try messaging? Any real people use anything else than WhatsApp?

It's good the monopolies are being dealt with. Because, yes, they are a danger to our freedom... our freedom to choose.

The Apple ios app stores have been used to distribute malware and will be continued to be used for such.

They must either stop accepting third party apps in their app store (which will mean that they don't have a product anymore), or accept the fact that people are going to figure out ways to get malware in.

In the EU the government is actually doing it's job by trying to make things difficult for monopolies - and they should; any government should. Wherever the monopoly comes from, it's life should be made really hard to allow the market to flourish. Monopolies suck the life out of the industry they occupy. The fact the USA has a disproportionate amount of monopolies, shows that corruption has reached baffling proportions over there.

Imagine:
You own a shop which is the ONLY place where people can buy parts for their car. When a competitor wants to sell parts as well, they need to go through YOUR shop. Because it's your shop, you ask companies who want to offer products via your shop to pay 30% of their revenue to you. They are also required to use all your other services. When you notice someone has a good product, you start offering the EXACT same thing, but cheaper.

In what universe is this called fair? It's a good thing the EU actually does something about such behavior.

Pretty soon you can't disable this field in systemd.