Training proprietary LLMs on open source code is shitty, rent-seeking behavior, but not really a unique development, and certainly not something that undermines the core value of open source.
Destroying “share alike” doesn’t undermine the core value of open source? What IS the core value?
I wonder if the whole purpose of promotion of FOSS by big companies was, long-term, this. Finding some way to abuse openness and collect for free the resource that becomes digital oil in the next stage, but only for those who own the foundries - computing resources for ML, that is.
Even if it wasn’t, it seems that they are perfectly fine with it now.
It transforms the contribution to no longer be “share alike”.
You can’t “train” on code you haven’t copied. That is kind of obvious, right? So did they have the right to copy and then reproduce the work without attribution?