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
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