Re:Cryptocurrencies add nothing useful to society, says chip...
by kkielhofner on Sunday March 26, 2023 @04:57PM
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I'm convinced that with the efforts you speak of we're seeing history repeat itself (as it often does).
In the late 90s/early 2000s when the internet/web was really picking up steam powerful and entrenched players like Microsoft were throwing their weight around and trying to dominate the space like they did personal computers. Ditto Sun, etc.
Then the open source community got together and ate their lunch. Who remembers Netcraft statistics for Windows + IIS vs Linux + Apache?
OpenAI, Meta, Google, to some extent Nvidia, etc are doing their best to go the closed/commercial/proprietary/gated/costly route (again) - and open source is already hitting back hard against all of these and as has been shown before, starting to catch-up/outpace them at incredible speed.
In the late 90s/early 2000s when the internet/web was really picking up steam powerful and entrenched players like Microsoft were throwing their weight around and trying to dominate the space like they did personal computers. Ditto Sun, etc.
Then the open source community got together and ate their lunch. Who remembers Netcraft statistics for Windows + IIS vs Linux + Apache?
OpenAI, Meta, Google, to some extent Nvidia, etc are doing their best to go the closed/commercial/proprietary/gated/costly route (again) - and open source is already hitting back hard against all of these and as has been shown before, starting to catch-up/outpace them at incredible speed.