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I hate the recent open-source rise

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Re: I hate the recent open-source rise

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Post by edg5000 »

Commercial, paid: You must pay money, you get access to service or a binary, or something in between. No source code released.

Shareware: You get to download and use the binary for free. Parts of it are missing, you must pay to receive a copy of it. (DOOM, WinRAR, Duke Nukem)

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Open-source: The source code is openly available. Sometimes development also happens in the open. (PHP, Apache HTTPD, Linux, GCC)

Open weights: AI model weights released including inference, tokenizer code and chat template. Some info released about how it was made. Training dataset and taining code NOT published. Crawler, scraper, book piracy, distillation methods: NOT published.

Re: I hate the recent open-source rise

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Post by Macha »

dataflow wrote: post #10

What a weird hill to choose to die on. I wasn't even aware of the trend, but I love it now that I'm aware of it; it makes total sense. If you're a prescriptivist, then open-source should be hyphenated for the same reason full-time, user-friendly, long-term, etc. are. That's how English works. You don't make the rules, and neither does OSI. If you're a descriptivist, then why are is OSI getting a monopoly on everyone'…

> If you're a prescriptivist, then open-source should be hyphenated for the same reason full-time, user-friendly, long-term, etc. are. That's how English works. You don't make the rules, and neither does OSI.

Honestly all of these exist in both hyphenated and unhyphenated usage in my experience and for long term and user friendly I’d guess unhyphenated gets more usage

Re: I hate the recent open-source rise

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Post by dataflow »

Macha wrote: post #12
dataflow wrote: post #10

What a weird hill to choose to die on. I wasn't even aware of the trend, but I love it now that I'm aware of it; it makes total sense. If you're a prescriptivist, then open-source should be hyphenated for the same reason full-time, user-friendly, long-term, etc. are. That's how English works. You don't make the rules, and neither does OSI. If you're a descriptivist, then why are is OSI getting a monopoly on everyone'…

> If you're a prescriptivist, then open-source should be hyphenated for the same reason full-time, user-friendly, long-term, etc. are. That's how English works. You don't make the rules, and neither does OSI. Honestly all of these exist in both hyphenated and unhyphenated usage in my experience and for long term and user friendly I’d guess unhyphenated gets more usage

>> If you're a prescriptivist, then open-source should be hyphenated for the same reason full-time, user-friendly, long-term, etc. are. That's how English works.

> Honestly all of these exist in both hyphenated and unhyphenated usage in my experience

...which is descriptive, not prescriptive.

Re: I hate the recent open-source rise

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Post by jamietanna »

zzrrt wrote: post #15
periodjet wrote: post #13

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Where did you get this from? It's not in TFA for me... Edit: Speaking of chosen behaviors pushed on others, do you have a religious impulse to make us all feel as triggered as you are?

I must say, I'm honoured this commenter is so angry about this post, they've read through many of my blog posts, and gone through microsites like my Manual of Me[0], to pull this quote to attempt to criticise me

[0]: https://manual.jvt.me/

Re: I hate the recent open-source rise

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Post by periodjet »

squibonpig wrote: post #14
periodjet wrote: post #13

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If you think what you're doing is good for anyone to do, it's only logical to nudge people around you to do it.

Sure. So how would you feel about a Christian nudging you to stop taking the lord’s name in vain because they believe it’s “good for anyone to do”?

Re: I hate the recent open-source rise

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Post by periodjet »

jamietanna wrote: post #17
zzrrt wrote: post #15

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Where did you get this from? It's not in TFA for me... Edit: Speaking of chosen behaviors pushed on others, do you have a religious impulse to make us all feel as triggered as you are?

I must say, I'm honoured this commenter is so angry about this post, they've read through many of my blog posts, and gone through microsites like my Manual of Me[0], to pull this quote to attempt to criticise me [0]: https://manual.jvt.me/

Whoa there. Quite a lot of strong assumptions you’re making about me. That doesn’t seem very empathetic or compassionate on your part.
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