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If you think the bar for "open" is that low then i guess Windows is "open" too.
by snickerbockers 4y ago
If you think the bar for "open" is that low then i guess Windows is "open" too.
- zamnos 4y agoCompared to IBM of yore, where only wizards were allowed in the computer room, you wouldn't be wrong. It's not open source according to Richard Stallman's Free Software Foundation, and a pox on OpenAI for being misleading with their name (though they're far from the first company to do so). But keeping in mind the revolution that was the PC, and how the reverse engineered BIOS opened up the world of computing, whippersnappers these days would do well to learn their history. The Dream Machine by Waldrop is a good one to start with.