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Why China is racing ahead in AI, and in everything else: their whole economy is open source (youtu.be)
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[–] [email protected] -3 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Thanks. Yeah, those are both shit licenses

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

do elaborate

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

A company can take that work, fork it, modify it, sell it, and then lock up their modifications without being required to release then under an open source license.

Also doesn't protect anything hosted on a web server, like AGPL does

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 weeks ago

I prefer AGPL as well, however permissive license such as MIT are still open source. Meanwhile, the whole premise of the video is that collaboration in the open ultimately wins. The incentives align to favor open source in general. This is especially the case in China where such projects have government backing.