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I’m curious why you think I’m grasping for straws? It is clear that Meta can like open source and meta can like it not for charitable or esoteric “values” but f
by gmerc 3y ago
I’m curious why you think I’m grasping for straws? It is clear that Meta can like open source and meta can like it not for charitable or esoteric “values” but for the business benefits it brings.
Maybe I should have mentioned the better part of a decade on the inside, if there were “values” beyond “how do we crush our enemies”, “how do we keep regulators at bay” and “how do we win the war for talent” relating to open source, well, I haven’t seen them.
You really think “open” is a business motivation enough to dump hundreds of millions of R&D into this ;)
- dartharva 3y agoThere are a lot of good reasons to go open-source, the majority of them being related to boosting the quality of the products being developed themselves. PyTorch is the behemoth it is only because it went ubiquitous, and it went ubiquitous only because it was that accessible. Whose "moat" was Pytorch destroying? Saying that going FOSS is just inherently some sinister strategy to cut off other businesses' tech moats is a lot far-fetched than the simpler explanation that open-source simply gives you a lot more exposure and insight towards development and quality of the software. It has been a legitimate model for nearly two decades now (read: CatB).
- gmerc 3y agoYou can’t be that naive. “Done is better than perfect”. Please google “commoditize your complements”. Business is about winning in the arena of capitalism, not abstract metrics like code quality.