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I agree, Meta's work in AI has been really impressive, and it's encouraging how they are open-sourcing so much. It's funny, back in the 90s I disliked Microsoft and thought they were inherently culturally opposed to open source. But big corporations really just follow their business incentives when it comes to open source. It's not like Meta "loves to be open". But they would hate a world where all the powerful AI de…
I’m glad Microsoft is open sourcing a lot of things. I have never, ever seen a convincing business case for their doing so, however. Not your opinion. A compelling business case.
https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2002/06/12/strategy-letter-v/
In particular, open source software prevents people from getting locked into any of the AWS, Linux, iOS, or Android ecosystems. All of those are popular software development ecosystems that Microsoft does not own or influence very much.