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As a user I suffer from not being able to freely use or derive my own work from Microsoft’s
by inlined 10mo ago
As a user I suffer from not being able to freely use or derive my own work from Microsoft’s
- reactordev 10mo agoThis. People conflate consumer to user. A user in the sense of GPL is a programmer or technical person whom the software (including source) is intended for. Not necessarily a “user of an app” but a user of this “suite of source code”.
- Brian_K_White 10mo agoExcept really the whole point is it explicitly and actively makes no distinction. Every random user has 100% of the same rights as any developer or vendor.
- xorcist 10mo agoA completely level playing field. There's probably never been a more perfect free market than that in free software. It turns out that most people who say that value free market capitalism never really did.
- CamperBob2 10mo agoAt this point they've contributed a reasonably-fair share of open-source code themselves. No one benefits from locking up 99.999% of all source code, including most of Microsoft's proprietary code and all GPL code. No one. When it comes to AI, the only foreseeable outcome to copyright maximalism is that humans will have to waste their time writing the same old shit, over and over, forever less one day [1], because muh copyright!!!1! 1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copyright_Term_Extension_Act https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copyright_Term_Extension_Act
- Retric 10mo ago> only foreseeable outcome to copyright maximalism Nahh, AI companies had plenty of money to pay for access they simply chose not to.
- CamperBob2 10mo agoClearing those rights, which don't actually exist yet, would have been utterly impossible for any amount of money. Thousands of lawyers would tie up the process in red tape until the end of time.
- Retric 10mo agoThe basic premise of the economy is people do stuff for money. Any rights holder debating with their punishing house or whatever just means they don’t get paid. Some trivial number of people would opt out, but most authors or their estates would happily take an extra few hundred dollars per book. YouTube on the other hand has permission from everyone uploading videos to make derivative works barring some specific deal with a movie studio etc. Now there’s a few exceptions like large GPL works but again diminishing returns here, you don’t need to train on literally everything.