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For a new golden age of FOSS

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Re: For a new golden age of FOSS

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most models are built on theft anyway, especially if you take the GDPR viewpoint

Except the megacorps won't let you use their closed software for learning. They're fine to use others' copyrighted materials though.

reverse engineering stays under "fair use" when it's for interoperability purposes

Re: For a new golden age of FOSS

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Except the megacorps won't let you use their closed software for learning. They're fine to use others' copyrighted materials though.

reverse engineering stays under "fair use" when it's for interoperability purposes

Which is an order of magnitude harder than reading the code.

Re: For a new golden age of FOSS

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reverse engineering stays under "fair use" when it's for interoperability purposes

Which is an order of magnitude harder than reading the code.

Of course but the investments needed in obfuscations and the bugs introduced are orders of magnitude more important. It looks a lot like the struggle between ad providers and ad blockers - the ad blockers may be lagging behind but eventually they catch up. Same things with scrapping
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