The threat to open source comes from within
Given these realities, I find the furthest extreme of the free and open source philosophy not only unethical in its own right in that it incentivizes wide-scale consumption over production and thus impoverishes the software world, but divorced from reality in that it misunderstands the economic forces responsible for the production of software (and... See more
Ryan Fleury • Software Kingdoms
Linux would never have become a global success story if subjected to license terms or limitations or if its innovations had been patent-protected.
Mikko Hyppönen • If It's Smart, It's Vulnerable
And in the end, OpenAI doesn’t matter . They are making the same mistakes we are in their posture relative to open source, and their ability to maintain an edge is necessarily in question. Open source alternatives can and will eventually eclipse them unless they change their stance. In this respect, at least, we can make the first move.
Simon Willison • Leaked Google document: “We Have No Moat, And Neither Does OpenAI”
