I feel like every time something has started with the name “Open”, the promise that lured people in (sometimes implicit, sometimes explicit) has been broken. O

I feel like every time something has started with the name “Open”, the promise that lured people in (sometimes implicit, sometimes explicit) has been broken. Open Exchange Rates: the fact that you didn’t need an API key was an important part of their gaining popularity. Of course, this fell down at some point, at least partly due to stupidly-coded clients, and so they started requiring an API key, and completely hobbled the free plan for many previously-recommended uses (only hourly updates and 1,000 requests per month; a month is up to 744 hours, so they really are just saying “if you want to use this broadly, either pay us $97/month, or cache it yourself hourly, proxying it if you have multiple access points”). Not very open. OpenAI: eh, you probably already know the story. They broke their word and premise thoroughly.