Re:Does free software benefit from ML models being derived w...
by formerly_proven on Tuesday July 13, 2021 @03:15AM
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This idea does not work for multiple reasons:
- You can keep things secret without copyright being involved at all. Something like the Coca-Cola recipe isn't protected by copyright, but by secrecy. No problems to apply this to proprietary software.
- SaaS and PaaS make distribution terms irrelevant and secrecy very easy.
Open source for the user lost a number of years ago, the reason companies embrace it is because it commoditizes components, i.e. lowers cost, because it's literally free stuff.
- You can keep things secret without copyright being involved at all. Something like the Coca-Cola recipe isn't protected by copyright, but by secrecy. No problems to apply this to proprietary software.
- SaaS and PaaS make distribution terms irrelevant and secrecy very easy.
Open source for the user lost a number of years ago, the reason companies embrace it is because it commoditizes components, i.e. lowers cost, because it's literally free stuff.