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by y04nn 701 days ago
Don't be fooled, it is a "embrace extend extinguish" strategy. Once they have enough usage and be the default standard they will start to find any possible ways to make you pay.
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Credits where due: Facebook didn't do that with React or PyTorch. Meta will reap benefit for sure, but they don't seem to be betting on selling the model itself, rather they will benefit from being at the forefront of a new ecosystem.
Hasn't really happened with PyTorch or any of their other open sourced releases tbh.