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$3000 might not be much to a wealthy software engineer in the US, but to, say, a college student in Portugal, it's a big expense. Open source software democrat
by davidw 8mo ago
$3000 might not be much to a wealthy software engineer in the US, but to, say, a college student in Portugal, it's a big expense.
Open source software democratized software in a huge way.
- seanmcdirmid 8mo agoOk, from that perspective we are still a few years from when a college student in Portugal can run local OSS models on their own hardware...but we aren't a few decades away from that, at least.