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I often like to think about https://github.com/chrislgarry/Apollo-11 https://github.com/chrislgarry/Apollo-11 as an analogy. It's public domain with available s
by btown 3y ago
I often like to think about https://github.com/chrislgarry/Apollo-11 https://github.com/chrislgarry/Apollo-11 as an analogy. It's public domain with available source, in the assembly language in which it was written... so it fills all the definitions of OSS!
But the process by which that code arose, the ability to modify any line and understand its impact (heh) on a real execution environment, is dependent on a massive process that required billions of dollars and thousands of the smartest people on the planet. For all intents and purposes, without that environment, it is as reliably modifiable as an executable binary in any other context - or a set of weights, in this one!
- monocasa 3y agoI don't think that's a great example. For instance, I can step through and even modify that code using tooling like AGC emulators like this one http://www.ibiblio.org/apollo/#gsc.tab=0 http://www.ibiblio.org/apollo/#gsc.tab=0 What makes it open source is access to the same level of source access that the original developers worked in. That's what's missing here. Mistral's engineers do not simply open this binary in their editor to do their job.