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Openwashing: Microsoft OSI Having a Crisis, Fake "Open Source" Slop (Not "AI") Criticised
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Open Source Initiative ☛ Keep changing: How Open Source has to continually evolve [Ed: End of an era]
Wrapping up 4-year term as OSI executive director.
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Open Source Initiative ☛ OSI charts next phase for the organization with executive director search [Ed: The interim head is a slop booster]
The Open Source Initiative (OSI) will begin searching for a new executive director as Stefano Maffulli departs in October to focus on Open Source Hey Hi (AI) and data governance.
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Rethinking the AI Race
But the story of Linux is quite different from Meta’s “open-source” AI project, Llama. First and foremost, no universally accepted definition of open-source AI exists. Second, Linux had no “Big Tech” corporation behind it. Its success was made possible by the free software movement, led by American activist and programmer Richard Stallman, who created the GNU General Public License (GPL) to ensure software freedom. The GPL allowed for the free distribution and collaborative development of essential software, most notably the Linux open source operating system, developed by Finnish programmer Linus Torvalds. Linux has become the foundation for numerous open-source operating systems, developed by a global community that has fostered a culture of openness, decentralization, and user control. Llama is not distributed under a GPL.
Under the Llama 4 licensing agreement, entities with more than 700 million monthly active users in the preceding calendar month must obtain a license from Meta, “which Meta may grant to you in its sole discretion” before using the model. Moreover, algorithms powering large AI models rely on vast amounts of data to function effectively. Meta, however, does not make its training data publicly available.
Thus, can we really call it open source?