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[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 weeks ago

Friends don't let Friends use Microsoft products. If you're using Windows you're finding this awful organisation. Shame on you.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 4 months ago

Man it's crazy how these fuckers basically get to ignore copyright law whenever it's inconvenient to them but if you have one too many Windows machines provisioned they'll send the Spanish Inquisition after you.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 4 months ago

Sure thing...now GPL/Creative Commons all your code involved in any way for your models, documentation, parameters, data sets, and allow full unlimited integration and modification by any parties to any portion of it.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 4 months ago

The social contract? Tf. The social contract still required attribution in almost all cases for creative work unless explicitlf stated otherwise—especially in the case of comercial products like ChatGPT—so I don’t know where this joker is getting his ideas.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 4 months ago
[–] [email protected] 48 points 4 months ago

So Windows XP source code leak is now freeware?

[–] [email protected] 16 points 4 months ago

I'd like to see this "CEO of AI" stand on the same ground as the CEO of Sex

[–] [email protected] 36 points 4 months ago

I look forward to the lawsuits that will ultimately cost this man his job.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 4 months ago (1 children)

I went into a smidge more detail over on my Mastodon last night, but my response is summed up as “WTAF? No! Freeware is an explicit license, as anyone from the BBS days will recall.”

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago

Would you mind sharing a link to it here if it's not any trouble? (Or your handle if that's easier for you) I'm always looking for new stuff to check out and new people to follow on Mastodon

[–] [email protected] 53 points 4 months ago (2 children)

From the article:

Also, in 2022, several unidentified developers sued OpenAI and GitHub based on claims that the organizations used publicly posted programming code to train generative models in violation of software licensing terms

They can argue about it not being a copy all they want. If there is a single GPL licenced line of code scraped then anything they produce is a derivative work & must be licenced GPL.

nice.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago (1 children)

I’ll play the uniformed devils advocate here:

  1. Is the GPL license enforceable?
  2. And if so, I assume “derivative” will still subjective to some degree. Where do we draw the line between derivative and non-derivative?

I’m torn about my personal opinion about copyrights and software licensing in general. I think the main problem is the huge power imbalance between people and corporations, not so much the fact a company analyzed a bunch of available data to solve programming problems.

They don’t copy the data and sell it verbatim to others which would be a legal issue and in my mind also a moral issue, as they don’t add any additional value.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago

1: yes

2: Normally derivative works are patched or modified versions of the original. I think the common English meaning would apply & chatGPT et al are fucked. I doubt there is a precedent for this yet.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago (1 children)

The only way I can see them weaseling out of this is by keeping the program running the model made in-house and proprietary while releasing the model in a format unusable without the base (proprietary) program. But maybe the GPL forbids such obfuscstion efforts (I don't know, I haven't studied it in detail)

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago

GPL v2 don't, which lead to tivoization. But Linus himself didn't agree with that standing.

[–] [email protected] 120 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (3 children)

You heard it here folks. Microsoft says if you find something online, it's free.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago

Always was.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago

@JCreazy @sabreW4K3 I have found a key for windows 11 together with its source code that means that its free now right? :ablobcatreach:

[–] [email protected] 6 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Which is why I boycott as hard as I can every service this evil corporation provides (migrate your MS GitHub project away now so I can delete this account too)

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Microsoft is in a death spiral.

Even my coworkers who are complete idiots with technology, who actively sabotage themselves every time they touch any piece of hardware and software, have soured entirely on nearly every Microsoft product across the board.

Its funny how quickly people change their minds when they dont understand the technology on a deeper level. Its just: "this is frustrating now I hate it" and no further thought.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago

@Rekorse @toastal They just reach the same point as professionals, only 10 years later (+/- 2 years)

[–] [email protected] 37 points 4 months ago
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