Fake 'Open Source' Software and Microsoft AstroTurfing
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Microsoft's 'Open Source' Initiative ☛ OSI’s board of directors in 2025: details about the elections [Ed: Microsoft front group OSI (bought by Microsoft) shilling "social media channels (Fediverse, LinkedIn, BlueSky)". Two of these are proprietary and one controlled by Microsoft, the main controller of today's OSI. Of course this blog post was published by a Microsoft operative salaried by Microsoft (Nick Vidal).]
...stay tuned for announcements on our social media channels (Fediverse, LinkedIn, BlueSky)
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Debian Family
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Dominique Dumont: How we solved storage API throttling on our Microsoft trap Azure Kubernetes clusters [Ed: Microsoft proprietary spyware infesting planet Debian; he's not at Microsoft though, only GitHub]
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Openwashing
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Futurism ☛ Chinese AI Firm Says Its Open Source New Model Is Beating OpenAI's Most Advanced Publicly Released Model
Under the open source model, anyone has the legal rights to use, alter, and distribute DeepSeek's software (household-name open source projects include Mozilla Firefox, VLC Media Player, and Linux.)
In theory, it's the most egalitarian approach to software development. However, not everyone's convinced that open source AI is the way forward; in an interview on the podcast "Tech Won't Save Us," professor of economics at University College London Cecelia Rikap argued that open source AI's development is often still connected to a for-profit business model.
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