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To me the whole point of open source is selfless giving and sharing. You build something and release the source code in case it's useful for whatever purpose pe
by kurtreed 4y ago
To me the whole point of open source is selfless giving and sharing. You build something and release the source code in case it's useful for whatever purpose people might have: learning, understanding, contributing, forking, copying, etc. And companies might build on it, train models from it, use it internally, who knows. Great. Other companies can do the same and compete. So can other open source projects.
For some reason when a company benefits from your work instead of some other entity that's bad? Please explain.
- waihtis 4y agoBecause a company of Microsoft's magnitude will build a walled garden around their ecosystem over time? Haven't we seen this effect in play like a million times?
- professorpiggos 4y agoIf by walled garden you mean that their service is better than competitors, that isn't necessarily a bad thing. Codex does nothing to lead to a walled garden, it is just providing a useful service and could be the spark of more competition.
- kurtreed 4y agoEta: honestly asking, this is just my heuristic, not something I've thought a lot about