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What's with naming proprietary stuff "open"?
by dudu24 2mo ago
What's with naming proprietary stuff "open"?
- redlewel 2mo agoblame openai they started it
- thesdev 2mo agoIt's following the open closed principle.
- Anoian 2mo agoIts sad that you gotta be a software engineer, to immediately get this joke, because its pretty good
- echelon 2mo agoWould "OpenSourceRouter" be a trademark violation? I've built one in Rust and want to market it.
- Pet_Ant 2mo agoNot if you’re in a different domain, then it cannot be claimed to confuse customers. So if it’s a network router or a woodworking router, then you’re good. I can sells of red socks, and white socks, without getting sued by Chicago or Boston. If it’s in the same space… you might want to contact a lawyer. I believe Firefox had conflicts with earlier names like Phoenix and FireBird and they weren’t even browsers.
- teraflop 2mo agoClearly these products are being named by topologists, who have no objection to things being simultaneously open and closed.
- _joel 2mo agoSchrödinger's Product
- impulser_ 2mo agoIt could be open in the literally sense of you aren't locked in, you have free access to any model you want. Just because a name has open in it doesn't mean it has to be open source.
- subscribed 2mo ago"Open" is a load bearing reference we all get :p
- thih9 2mo agoIt’s an AI era buzzword. It’s not a new process, e.g. when blockchain was trendy, “crypto-“ and “bit-“ became similarly popular and meaningless.