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by nrnrjrjrj 607 days ago
Open source won those battles but the war doesn't end. The next fight is AI and thanks to a leak we have open source (weights and inference) models now.

Without that leak we would not have the ecosystem evolving around Llama.
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dtquad 607 days ago
Meta was always planning to release LLaMA to the public. They were literally sending LLaMA 1 to anyone with a ".edu" email.
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teddyh 607 days ago
Bell Labs did the same with Unix, but Unix was still not open source. This is why we run GNU/Linux today, not Unix™.
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pjmlp 607 days ago
There is still enough Unix™ around, including from a well know fruit company.
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teddyh 607 days ago
No, macOS is FreeBSD, not the Unix from Bell Labs.
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pjmlp 607 days ago
macOS is many things, a bit of NeXTSTEP, a pinch of Mach, q.b. BSD, and a UNIX™ certification from OpenGroup.
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teddyh 607 days ago
A UNIX™ certification is not the same as being actual code from Unix™.

NeXTSTEP was 4.3BSD plus Mach, using Display Postscript as its windowing system and TIFF as its image format, supporting transparency for icons. macOS is FreeBSD plus Mach, using Display PDF as its windowing format and PNG as its image format, supporting transparency for icons. Basically NeXTSTEP but every component upgraded to its then-modern equivalent. (Except Objective C, they kept that.)

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