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Re:OpenAI Is Now Everything It Promised Not to Be: Closed-So... by jrm4 on Wednesday March 01, 2023 @12:19PM (#34985080)
Are there any companies like Docker? They feel like such a Black Swan to me; namely -- "billions" + very useful + pretty much "not evil" at all. I literally can't think of any others.

I don't mean "literally evil" of course, I personally acknowledge the need to make money et al, but I mean it even seems like your most Stallman-esque types wouldn't have too much of a problem with Docker?

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Re:OpenAI Is Now Everything It Promised Not to Be: Closed-So... by throwaway2037 on Wednesday March 01, 2023 @01:24PM (#34986245)
Netflix?
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Re:OpenAI Is Now Everything It Promised Not to Be: Closed-So... by jrm4 on Wednesday March 01, 2023 @02:54PM (#34987404)
Don't know why this was downvoted, I tend to agree. There's a clear relationship between the money and the product. Pay money, receive access to a bunch of shows. (as opposed to, e.g. SEO click-view advertising shadiness)
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Re:OpenAI Is Now Everything It Promised Not to Be: Closed-So... by majou on Thursday March 02, 2023 @12:40AM (#34992404)
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Re:OpenAI Is Now Everything It Promised Not to Be: Closed-So... by ynx on Wednesday March 01, 2023 @01:49PM (#34986637)
While I have no problem with Docker, it probably is worth noting that their entire product is based on a decade and a half of Google engineering invested into the Linux kernel (cgroups).

Not that that demeans or devalues Docker, but it contextualizes its existence as an offshoot of a Google project that aimed to make it possible (and did, but only internally)

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Re:OpenAI Is Now Everything It Promised Not to Be: Closed-So... by jankeymeulen on Wednesday March 01, 2023 @03:32PM (#34987895)
So is OpenAI actually, GPT -> transformer, invented at Google. DALL-E -> diffusion, invented at ... Google.
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Re:OpenAI Is Now Everything It Promised Not to Be: Closed-So... by margorczynski on Wednesday March 01, 2023 @05:01PM (#34988965)
Seems like maybe many of their products are mediocre and short-lived but their engineering and research are top-notch.
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Re:OpenAI Is Now Everything It Promised Not to Be: Closed-So... by goodpoint on Wednesday March 01, 2023 @04:32PM (#34988634)
> Are there any companies like Docker?

Let's hope not.

> "not evil" at all

Sarcasm?

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Re:OpenAI Is Now Everything It Promised Not to Be: Closed-So... by DiggyJohnson on Wednesday March 01, 2023 @05:26PM (#34989200)
What's evil about Docker (the company)?
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Re:OpenAI Is Now Everything It Promised Not to Be: Closed-So... by matt_heimer on Wednesday March 01, 2023 @06:20PM (#34989752)
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28369570

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27013865

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Re:OpenAI Is Now Everything It Promised Not to Be: Closed-So... by goodpoint on Wednesday March 01, 2023 @06:35PM (#34989909)
The bait and switch was not nice but there's more...
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Re:OpenAI Is Now Everything It Promised Not to Be: Closed-So... by DiggyJohnson on Thursday March 02, 2023 @02:29PM (#35000601)
That is very far away from my personal definition of the word "evil".
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Re:OpenAI Is Now Everything It Promised Not to Be: Closed-So... by jrm4 on Wednesday March 01, 2023 @10:36PM (#34991651)
Not awesome, but nowhere near the definite evil I've seen from Microsoft, Oracle, Amazon, etc....
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