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1. Re: Southern Hemisphere?s biggest data centre gets the green
light (Published:, 28 November 2025) (Tom Worthington)
2. Re: Linux will be unstoppable in 2026 (Craig Sanders)
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Date: Tue, 10 Feb 2026 12:48:29 +1100
From: Tom Worthington <[email protected]>
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Subject: Re: [LINK] Southern Hemisphere?s biggest data centre gets the
green light (Published:, 28 November 2025)
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On 2/10/26 09:42, Marghanita da Cruz wrote:
> Is CDC the same company that made Cyber Computers in 1970s?
No, that CDC was Control Data Corporation USA. This CDC is "Canberra
Data Centers". I toured their first facility in Canberra in 2009, and
was impressed:
https://blog.tomw.net.au/2009/05/green-data-centre-in-canberra.html
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Tom Worthington http://www.tomw.net.au
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Date: Wed, 11 Feb 2026 03:17:21 +1100
From: Craig Sanders <[email protected]>
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[ catching up on LINK mail and noticed this ]
On Tuesday, 30 December 2025 03:29:43 AEDT Stephen Loosley (quoting zdnet.com)
wrote:
> > However, while AI will be used to help develop the Linux kernel, no one
> > is predicting, a la Windows, that AI will be used to rewrite the entire
> > codebase by 2030.
No, AI won't be used to develop the linux kernel. AI slop has already been
rejected and, last I heard, was being prohibited from the kernel.
AI code generation is for non-programmers (or incompetent ones). Competent
programmers don't trust AI-generated code because it's crap, and they're
competetent enough to not only know that it IS crap but also to know in detail
exactly WHY it's crap.
On Fri, Jan 02, 2026 at 03:48:23PM +1100, David wrote:
> So if AI is "trained" on the OSS codebase, wouldn't it be just an amazing
> coincidence if the result looked like (and was even compatible with)
> Linux? And think of all those interesting Linux packages which might become
> available at no cost.
They'd want to be VERY careful about that.
Even after years of corporations like Apple and Google pushing the bullshit
notion that the BSD license and similar licenses are "more free" than the
GPL (because they include the "freedom" to prevent users you distribute the
software to from having the same freedoms you received when you received
the software[*]), the Linux kernel and a large percentage of Open-Source
software and almost all Free Software is GPL-licensed or LGPL-licensed (or
other "copyleft" license).
Any AI-generated code that includes GPL-ed or LGPL-ed code is a derivative
work of that code, and therefore must also be licensed under the same terms
as the original license with no additional restrictions. GPL/LGPL-ed code is
copyrighted and the only legal way to distribute it, or derivatives of it, is
to comply with the license terms.
And this won't be hard to prove, as there will be identifiable chunks of GPL
code in the slop regurgitated by LLVMs
[*] i.e. the only "freedom" that the BSD license grants that the GPL doesn't
is the freedom to restrict the freedoms of other users. The GPL grants
perpetual, irrevocable (as long as you follow the license and don't add
restrictions) freedoms to all users, developers, and distributors - once free,
always free. BSD grants freedoms primarily to developers and re-distributors
and allows users to be denied those rights - free for some, but not for
others.
craig
PS: my prediction is that there will be a significant move away from Windows
but Linux's "market share" still won't reach 10%. Except maybe for games,
with devices like the Steam Deck and the upcoming Steam Machine...and even
there it would be very lucky to reach that high.
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