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Re:Astral to Join OpenAI by victorbjorklund on Thursday March 19, 2026 @02:54PM (#47444129)
They have some nice ideas. But if they turn to shit you can just fork their tools and use that instead.
Re:Astral to Join OpenAI by __MatrixMan__ on Thursday March 19, 2026 @03:22PM (#47444524)
Agreed.

Maybe there needs to be some nonprofit watchdog which helps identify those cases in their early stages and helps bootstrap open forks. I'd fund to a sort of open capture protection savings account if I believed it would help ensure continuity of support from the things I rely on.