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It's more complicated than that. Open Source platforms win, Open Source products don't - but there are exceptions to both. I guess there's a point between pain

by mrtksn 3y ago

It's more complicated than that. Open Source platforms win, Open Source products don't - but there are exceptions to both. I guess there's a point between pain to use and pain to pay and pain to comply with the restrictions and whatever product or platform gravitates to the lowest of the sum of those for each use case wins. Obviously, this assumes good enough outputs. IMHO, Open Source AI will win because the restrictions of closed source one are too high and their lower price point through deep pockets doesn't compensate enough for that. The UX is not that different.

nvm0n2 3y ago
> Open Source platforms win, Open Source products don't Except for on laptops where Windows and macOS rule. And on phones, where iOS isn't dead yet. And on gaming computers, where the Steam Deck is very new and nowhere near PS5 or Xbox. And on the server where there's been a mass migration towards proprietary cloud platforms. Really the only place open source wins is when programmers are the only ones deciding on the product. Which makes sense, because programmers are the only people who benefit from something being open source. For everyone else it's just a question of which set of programmers you pay.