It was open source till the ones who has the keys (which shouldn’t be a thing for FOSS in the first place) got an offer that made their greed take over. It’s a thing that keeps happening and it needs to be a very strong lesson that anything open source needs to be handled in a way where no one can do this.
I fail to understand the use of the term open source when the resource itself can be bought by oligarchs. Like organic vegetables, or clean coal.
It was open source till the ones who has the keys (which shouldn’t be a thing for FOSS in the first place) got an offer that made their greed take over. It’s a thing that keeps happening and it needs to be a very strong lesson that anything open source needs to be handled in a way where no one can do this.
I’ve downloaded a terabyte worth of models and didn’t pay a cent. storage and bandwidth cost money
I just put together a budget starter PC for local inference. I guess this is my cue to set up and get downloading.