Open Source is About to Undergo Substantial Change
Open source communities are facing an existential crisis as AI and agentic systems reshape the landscape. With code generation tools flooding the market, traditional notions of value and collaboration are crumbling. If we fail to adapt our governance models, we risk empowering monopolistic forces that threaten the very essence of open source innovation.https://osenetwork.com/2025/12/07/open-source-is-about-to-undergo-substantial-change/
I've had concerns for a while about the direction the #OSI has been going with AI for a while. The publishing of the #OSAID weakens the #OpenSourceDefinition.
I'm not a member but the definition does require community participation in terms of the licences we choose and how we advocate for Open Source.
The recent board elections showed a disturbing pattern of obfuscation. We need to be able to trust Organisations that are meant to safeguard what Open source is.
Interesting thread about EDPB opinion on AI and building LLMs on folks posts.
I feel the @osi should have considered these things with their broken #OpenAI definition that undermines the #OpenSourceDefinition
But being in such a rush to define it, I suppose stuff like meaningful consent gets in the way of projects like #OpenAI goals.
I'm never going to forgive the OSI for doing that. There was time, it would have been better to insist the training models be open.
Nobody asked for it, but I did it anyway. A quick overview of the effect of yesterday’s EDPB Opinion (No 28/2024 for those keeping count) on the consequences for AI models built unlawfully using personal data. https://www.mcgarrsolicitors.ie/2024/12/18/overview-on-edpb-opinion-28-2024-on-personal-data-in-ai-models/
Using the term "open source" - a response to everything!
https://peertube.futo.org/videos/watch/229204e8-af1b-4904-8f72-04cf9ac9cc2b
And the source-code is licensed under a homebrewed license cooked up by Meta's lawyers, a license that only glancingly resembles anything from the #OpenSourceDefinition:
Core to Big Tech companies' "open AI" offerings are tools, like Meta's #PyTorch and Google's #TensorFlow. These tools are indeed "open source," licensed under real OSS terms.
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Great write up by Stephen O'Grady: Why Open Source Matters.
Astute observation that most of the time those who want to change the definition, or argue it doesn't matter, come from companies behind single vendor projects and are likely the same folks who are trying to sell you something 👀
https://redmonk.com/sogrady/2023/08/03/why-opensource-matters/
Is it “open source”? The question doesn’t really matter. – Matt Asay When we as an industry talk about whether the term open source matters, we need to talk about that question on more than one level. There’s the obvious question of the licensing for a given project. Often ignored, however, are the wider industry
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