Hi Ian, While I very much agree with your sentiments toward LLMs, I think you should stay. Divide and conquer has always been a technique used to attack FLOSS, and I believe that in our modern uncertain time, we have to stick together.
People can change their perception about something, usually through discussions with peoples that have different opinions. By ostracizing yourself, you remove your point of view from the community and thus your influence on others that your voice carries. I urge you to stay and fight for your point of view instead. For examplel, you can refuse to review PRs made with LLM. I'm sure you can find other way of protesting against LLM, within the community. Just so you know, Guile recently adopted a total ban on LLM usage for contributions. It is not all lost. Thanks, Olivier On Wed, 09 Sep 2026, Ian Eure <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Guix, > > I believe that use of LLMs is harmful and unethical, and I cannot > contribute to projects accepting them with a clear conscience. > Since the failure of GCD 008 means that these are and will > continue to be accepted, I’m given the choice of compromising my > belief system or leaving. I choose to leave, and am winding down > my participation in, and use of, Guix. I’ve removed myself from > all teams, closed any open PRs, and unsubscribed from the mailing > lists. I’ll still be on IRC, but will be /part’ing the Guix > channels. > > If anyone would like to pick up maintaining LibreWolf, I’d be > happy to hand it off; drop me an email or contact me on IRC. I’ll > still be on Libera.Chat, just in other channels. I’ll likely > continue to maintain it in my personal channel until I find a > suitable slop-free OS, but will not be contributing these updates. > The timeline for ceasing to maintain this is unknown, as I’ll need > to find a suitably anti-slop OS, and the entire software landscape > is increasingly dire. > > -- Ian > > -- Olivier Dion
