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by zyang 923 days ago
First incarnations of Unix were paid by corporations and universities.
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NewJazz 923 days ago
Thus GNU... And Linux.

20+ years later, look who is still around.

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ghaff 923 days ago
And Linux is mostly paid for by corporations, directly and indirectly.
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NewJazz 923 days ago
It wasn't at the start, and it certainly isn't the cathedral of one large company, like Facebook and OpenAI/Microsoft.
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KaiserPro 923 days ago
and you had the source, documentation and all the bits needed to build it from scratch.

llama is a binary blob. Very capable, and its great that it got leaked. But its not a win for opensource. Its an accident of licensing. FB's lawyers would never have let it be a proper open source license, the PR and IP risks were way too high.

It just so happens that the leak meant that the PR risk went away, and knee capping openAI is a good thing for meta, and thus worth the IP risk.

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