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whiplash451 • yesterday at 7:59 PM • 2 replies • view on HN

I think open weights is a fair term, much like open source but for weights.

Open source never implied that commercial applications were authorized.

I feel like the community is splitting hairs when the Anthropic/OpenAI are just locking everybody in way further than Mistral.


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gus_massa • yesterday at 9:17 PM

Open source always implied that commercial applications were authorized. https://opensource.org/osd

In recent years many companies mislabeled source abailable code as open source as a marketing and to build a comunity before the rug pull.

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singpolyma3 • yesterday at 9:18 PM

> Open source never implied that commercial applications were authorized.

Um. Yes. That is explicitly what open source means.