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Item 1: Repeal the Open Source AI Definition (OSAID) Item 2: Adopt a process for formal review of previously approved licenses Item 3: Remove “code of silence” from Board Member Ag…

This journalist didn't: "I’m a dues paying member and I didn’t receive it, and it’s highly possible that others deleted the email without opening it." OSI’s Continually Changing El…

Bradley M Kuhn has since announced[1] the platform[2] Luke would have been running on (with a blog post for updates[3]): Shared Platform for OSI Reform Item 1. Repeal the Open Sour…

This this is another issue, and it's why I'm not holding my breath for the data and will be satisfied with rebranding to the more appropriate Open Weight moniker (caveat: license).…

We’re finally starting to see some precision in language from the company, in that they consider that the Meta LLaMA AI models themselves are NOT in fact Open Source, rather Ope nW…

"Nobody disagrees about the principles [behind the OSAID], where we see disagreement is implementation" The principles are the four essential freedoms of free software, and the one…

“Some of the tension we've seen is in people that haven't made that mind shift to the wider picture and are just trying to apply what they are very familiar with, that they're expe…

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Karsten correctly called the consensus on that thread, including my own view as one of the folks named in the article, that accepting less-than-open "public" datasets like the dump…

That's why Open Source analyst Redmonk now "do not believe the term open source can or should be extended into the AI world." https://redmonk.com/sogrady/2024/10/22/from-open-sourc…

Yes, and Open Source started out with a much smaller set of software that has since grown exponentially thanks to the meaningful Open Source Definition. We risk giving AI the same …

The OSI apparently doesn't have the mandate from its members to even work on this, let alone approve it. The community is starting to regroup at https://discuss.opensourcedefinitio…

Nobody's asking for exact reproducibility — if the source code produces the software and it's appropriately licensed then it's Open Source. Similarly, if you run the scripts and it…

Normally yes, but said board is taking a very liberal view of "experts"; the "co-design" process literally says "everyone is an expert" ( https://jods.mitpress.mit.edu/pub/costanza…

The "co-design" process is literally the "Do Your Own Research" of technical standards ( https://jods.mitpress.mit.edu/pub/costanza-chock/release/4 ): "We believe that everyone is …

/me waves

OP gives up drinking, decides the rest of his industry has to as well. I'll get right on that.

"If computers of the kind I have advocated become the computers of the future, then computing may someday be organized as a public utility just as the telephone system is a public …

According to Skud (who was also suspended) you have to do this before you get suspended — now she "can’t use Google Takeout to export [her] profile and stream": http://infotrope.ne…

Skud observed ( http://infotrope.net/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/plus06.png ) that she "can’t use Google Takeout to export [her] profile and stream" after having been suspended hers…

Facebook lists provide (barely) adequate functionality for users with large and/or complex social networks to constrain sharing but, like Circles, they're a PITA to set up. Fiven m…