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That might be an indication that the business is not sustainable because there is not any technical or practical differentiator besides scale. Harming your cust

That might be an indication that the business is not sustainable because there is not any technical or practical differentiator besides scale. Harming your customers to maintain that differentiation isn't sustainable either.

maxdo 3mo ago
any intellectual labor is not sustainable, if anyone can copy your data. why have microsoft, i you can just copy windows and run it?
- Ucalegon 3mo ago
  Have you copied Windows and tried to run it? I would love to see the plain text source code that you claim to have. We all would.
  - maxdo 3mo ago
    half of the developing world did. guess what it stopped a bit the trend? protection.
    - Ucalegon 3mo ago
      There is a difference between being able to validate a Windows license and copying Windows from source code. If we are talking about distillation vs building from scratch, none of these are congruent to Windows. I can build my own LLM [0] and then distill off of Claude, but that is not the same as a 1:1 copy of an operating system because there was the ability to crack how licensing works. We are not seeing Windows clones, at the source level, for that reason. Also, Linux exists. Anyone can copy that. Why doesn't that count? [0] https://huggingface.co/docs/transformers/quicktour https://huggingface.co/docs/transformers/quicktour
    - user_7832 3mo ago
      Did it really? Here in my <large 3rd world country> at least, afaik no one's stopped pirating. The tools to activate may have changed but haven't gone away.