On Mon, Feb 3, 2025 at 11:25 AM Paul Koning via cctalk < cctalk@classiccmp.org> wrote:
> > > > On Feb 3, 2025, at 2:08 PM, Donald Whittemore via cctalk < > cctalk@classiccmp.org> wrote: > > > > I am an old mainframe guy. I could give you my COBOL deck of cards or > the compile listing. You could pour through the code looking for > nefarious/malicious code. I then hand you the object deck. You have no idea > if it matches the code you looked at. The only way you could be sure is to > compile the code I gave you and use your own object deck. > > > > So why is open source these days such a beneficial thing? DeepSeek may > be open source but I have no way to create my own executable. Besides, I > don’t know what language it is written in but I bet I have no expertise in > it. No way to for me to identify nasty code. > > > > Yes, many people may have reviewed the code but that does not mean what > I am running is the result of that code. > > Open source, properly defined, means not just that you can see the code > but that you have the possibility of building it. If DeepSeek is > advertised as open source but you can't create your own executable, that's > clearly false advertising. > "but I have no way to create my own executable" it's a model, not an executable. Per the github page "6. How to Run Locally" ... "DeepSeek-V3 can be deployed locally using the following hardware and open-source community software" Broadly I gave up on the original post at " I am an old mainframe guy"
