[cctalk] Re: Open source a panacea?

[Ethan Dicks via cctalk]

On Mon, Feb 3, 2025 at 2:43 PM Paul Koning via cctalk
<cctalk@classiccmp.org> wrote:
> 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.
If you can't afford enough RAM/disk/CPUs to create and run it, that
doesn't mean "not Open Source".  Likewise with access to sufficient
volume of training data in the case of an LLM.