Should I Open Source my Company?

Re:Should I Open Source my Company? by archibaldJ on Monday January 22, 2024 @06:15AM (#39088282)

good points.

Realistically, it feels like the actual utility of an open-source project is based on:

1. it being educational: so everyone can look into its source & learn from its design pattern, etc, or build upon or borrow parts (eg to be modified) and to be used in their own projects - but the practicality of it will really depend on how decoupled and well-designed the system is

2. in favour of competition (so more possible start-ups / big corps can clone their systems/services) and as consumers we will obviously benefit from that

3. llm can access & train on its source code

I think point 3 is most interesting. And I’m also super curious how true point 2 is and to what extend

Point 1 is really cool too - esp when it is done wonderfully (Linux, React for example) but it really depends on so many levels

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Re:Should I Open Source my Company? by FridgeSeal on Monday January 22, 2024 @07:13AM (#39088645)

What do LLM’s have to do with code licences, and since when has the utility of code depended upon an LLM instead of, you know, its own utility?

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Re:Should I Open Source my Company? by spacebacon on Monday January 22, 2024 @07:39AM (#39088842)

What he is saying is that LLM’s released into the wild to train can anonymously steal from his code to improve their own utility outside of licensing boundaries.

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