Alas! For almost a century [see diagram] CEO's are spreading phony illusions about "superintelligent AI" being almost ready. This happens when your main concern is to find investors rather than actually helping humanity.
https://i0.wp.com/sitn.hms.harvard.edu/wp-content/uploads/20...
Sam Altman (CEO of "OpenAI" - company responsible for chatGPT ) just announced that " It is possible that we will have superintelligence in a few thousand days".
Alas! For almost a century [see diagram] CEO's are spreading phony illusions about "superintelligent AI" being almost ready. This happens when your main concern is to find investors rather than actually helping humanity.
https://i0.wp.com/sitn.hms.harvard.edu/wp-content/uploads/20...
The Debian team announcement is on the right track.
Asking freelancers and free software groups to face the same measures and fines as big tech companies is unfair competition.
The E.U. of course, was never friendly to free software[1].
The bureaucratic and neoliberal extremists that are in the lobby of Brussels will always try to destroy free and independent creation.
> is that Open Source has completely failed to serve the common person. For the most part, if they use us at all they do so through a proprietary software company's systems, like Apple iOS or Google Android, both of which use Open Source for infrastructure but the apps are mostly proprietary.
This most certainly wouldn't have happened if "open source realism" didn't stood against free software "utopian" idealists. I still remember the "Linux Kernel is now in most devices in the world" when Android came out. This didn't went well, didn't it?
Lastly, isn't redhat an enthusiastic supporter of open source ? The domain https://opensource.com/ is literally copyrighted and supported by redhat...
Open source supporters were celebrating Google's use of the Linux kernel in Android, hoping that this would promote it's usage. Android is now a Frankenstein spyware monster that uses mostly proprietary software.
I don't think that, say, Lineage or Calyx share the same privacy concerns as Google's android variant, or the myriad vendors' proprietary forks.
Of course, if most of Android were GPL instead of Apache, the lockin wouldn't be possible.
If you're referring to locked bootloaders and not being able to use the GPL kernel due to that, that was a defect in GPLv2 that was fixed in GPLv3 (that and software patents). TiVo was the one that induced that change, and the term was "tivoization."
