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"open" is literally in the name, so yes

• Grombobulous 19d ago
  Apple should make their products edible as well.
  • mertenvg 19d ago
    Pretty sure that was Blackberry's downfall
  • monocasa 19d ago
    'Apple' was a metaphor to Newton. 'Open'AI was meant as a promise; one that they've since broke both to some of their founders as well to the general populace. Reminding people of that broken promise doesn't seem that wild.
    • latexr 19d ago
      > 'Apple' was a metaphor to Newton “Apple” was a non-intimidating name that would appear early in the phone book. It had nothing to do with Newton, that logo came after the name. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Apple_Inc https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Apple_Inc. > According to Wozniak, Jobs proposed the name “Apple Computer” when he had just come back from Robert Friedland's All-One Farm in Oregon. Jobs told Walter Isaacson that he was "on one of my fruitarian diets," when he conceived of the name and thought "it sounded fun, spirited and not intimidating ... plus, it would get us ahead of Atari in the phone book."
      • monocasa 19d ago
        Either way, it wasn't intended to be a promise to the public to be held to the same way as OpenAI's name was.
        • latexr 19d ago
          Yes, agreed. Sorry, I lost track of the important bit there.
    • nephihaha 19d ago
      Some of the earliest Apple adverts make reference to the Garden of Eden, rather than Newton. Plus we all know the Beatles had that company name first.
• nephihaha 19d ago
  '"open" is literally in the name, so yes' Just because someone calls themselves something doesn't mean it is. "Open" is a name that George Soros uses for a lot of the things he puts his billions into e.g. the Open Democracy blog. I'll leave you to decide whether Soros' enterprises are really open.