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An example of FOSS as a technological accelerant :) (www.semianalysis.com)
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(I don't know if crossposting is possible on lemmy yet, this is from !technology@beehaw.org)

I think this a good example of the true power of open source and open research to accelerate technological advancement. My suggestion for projects: make it as easy and modular as possible so the maximum number of improvements can be made in parallel.

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[–] sapient_cogbag@infosec.pub 1 points 1 year ago

Yeah. Its one of the reasons I prefer AGPL and GPL style licenses. One of the only gripes I have with the rust community is MIT and Apache licenses everywhere >.<, ripe for reproprietization.