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> You capture the value in your product by ensuring improvements come back to you. The user "pays" by not being able to close the product off. If clean-room re
by zozbot234 8mo ago
> You capture the value in your product by ensuring improvements come back to you. The user "pays" by not being able to close the product off.
If clean-room re-engineering a MIT code base starting from a GPL one is legit, then AI has just made that the status quo for everything.
- lelanthran 8mo ago> If clean-room re-engineering a MIT code base starting from a GPL one is legit, then AI has just made that the status quo for everything. I agree; this is what I meant by "the value is being captured by someone else". GPL provides the author with a specific value - you get back improvements. Using AI to launder that IP so that improvements don't have to be upstreamed is effectively capturing the value.