Stories
Real-world cases of how companies, communities, and individuals navigate AI adoption — the successes, struggles, and lessons learned.
Gentoo Linux Bans AI-Generated Code
How the Gentoo Linux project became the first major open source distribution to formally prohibit AI-assisted contributions.
Linus Torvalds: Pragmatic AI Approach
How the Linux creator takes a balanced, pragmatic approach to AI — neither banning it nor blindly embracing it.
NetBSD Quietly Bans AI-Generated Code
How the NetBSD project silently classified AI-generated code as "tainted" — without public debate or identifiable authors.
FreeBSD Deliberates on AI Policy
How FreeBSD is drafting an AI policy with legal counsel, interim guidance, and extended community deliberation.
Debian Declines to Ban AI Code
How the largest Linux distribution debated an AI ban, heard real dissent, and concluded that existing mechanisms were sufficient.
QEMU Bans AI Code Despite Good Process
How QEMU had proper mailing list discussion but still produced a blanket AI ban — because everyone in the room was a virtualization engineer.
Fedora Gets AI Policy Right
How Fedora spent over a year consulting their community and produced a balanced AI policy that other projects should emulate.
libvirt Copies QEMU Ban Without Thinking
How libvirt adopted QEMU's AI ban verbatim in one day — then watched their own maintainer ask if he'd been "tainted" by boilerplate code.
Foundations Got It Right, Projects Got It Wrong
How Linux Foundation, Apache, and Eclipse used legal committees to allow AI with transparency — while individual projects banned it without expertise.
The Anti-AI Lobbying Circuit
How a handful of activists carpet-bomb open source projects with identical anti-AI arguments — and how the best project leaders respond.
How an LLM Ban Travelled from Ruma to AerynOS
AerynOS's LLM policy is Ruma's, word for word — carried across by the maintainer who wrote the original. A case study in how AI policy propagates between unrelated projects.
RIRs and AI: Internet Governance Learns to Use LLMs
A report on how the Regional Internet Registries are approaching AI policy, with evidence from transcripts, annual reports, and security documentation.
Debian Votes on LLMs: Eight Answers and a Clear Winner
Debian's 2026 General Resolution put eight options on a ranked ballot — and 425 voting developers chose "Responsible Use of Generative AI" over four separate ban proposals.
OpenWrt Automates Code Review with Claude and MCP
While other embedded and networking projects banned AI or complained about reviewer burnout, OpenWrt built an autonomous Claude Code + GitHub MCP review pipeline — and told human contributors to read the bot's prompts.