Open Source
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The Panels app by MKBHD is shutting down. Interestingly, in their shutdown announcement/letter, they talk about open-sourcing the app’s source code: Once the app shutdown is complete and all user data has been securely deleted, we will open source the Panels app code under the Apache 2.0 license. This will allow anyone to build on…
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Open source is enabling walled gardens in technology
Millions of people have contributed and curated knowledge and code in places like Wikipedia and GitHub. And they have done this for free, in the name of open source. And now, companies like OpenAI get to just use that open data to train machine learning models and charge money for those AI models? Here is…
Winter Rant 