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Re:Meta Releases New AI-Based Photo Segmentation Tool to Eve... by lacker on Friday April 07, 2023 @06:03PM (#35487584)
It's pretty simple, they make a lot of money off Azure, and open source software is a complement to Azure. See the classic:

https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2002/06/12/strategy-letter-v/

In particular, open source software prevents people from getting locked into any of the AWS, Linux, iOS, or Android ecosystems. All of those are popular software development ecosystems that Microsoft does not own or influence very much.

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Re:Meta Releases New AI-Based Photo Segmentation Tool to Eve... by tomcam on Saturday April 08, 2023 @01:35AM (#35490830)
Not convincing or even relevant IMHO. Azure infra is largely closed source and Microsoft is making a ton of money off it.
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