Comment on Why Mark Zuckerberg wants to redefine open source so badly
kava@lemmy.world 1 day agoIt is defined legally in the EU
artificialintelligenceact.eu/high-level-summary/
There are different requirements if the provider falls under “Free and open licence GPAI model providers”
Which is legally defined in that piece of legislation
otherwise companies will get the benefits of “open source” without doing the actual work.
Meta has done a lot for Open source, to their credit. React Native is my preferred framework for mobile development, for example.
Again- I fully acknowledge they are a large evil megacorp but also there are certain realities we need to accept based on the system we live in. Open Source only exists because corporations benefit off of these shared infrastructure.
Our laws should encourage this type of behavior and not restrict it. By limiting the scope, it gives Meta less incentive to open source the code behind their AI models. We want the opposite. We want to incentivize
FooBarrington@lemmy.world 11 hours ago
I agree that we should incentivize open source work, but my worry is that by legitimizing partial open source as “open source”, you’re disincentivizing fully open source work. After all, why put in the effort if you’ll get the same result with way less work?
The incentive you’re asking for is a disincentive against full open source, and I can guarantee you that if the existing “open source” term wasn’t defended by hardliners, there’d be far less open source work in the wild than we have today.