On OpenAI's Support for Rust
rustfoundation.org
The Rust Foundation was happy to announce OpenAI as our newest Platinum Member today, as part of a $600,000 total contribution in support of the Rust Project and the broader Rust ecosystem. Membership in the Rust Foundation is a way for companies to support the maintainers who are building the…
    • festus@lemmy.caEnglish
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      6 days ago
      1. “Corporations should contribute back to open source projects”
      2. Corporation donates to <project>.
      3. “Fuck <project>”

      It’s not like Rust is using ChatGPT to rewrite the std crate. You’d prefer that they not compensate the humans actually improving the project?

      • Katherine 🪴@piefed.socialEnglish
        45·
        6 days ago

        Corporations shouldn’t contribute to open source projects cause corporations shouldn’t exist; especially Open AI.