Comment by jaggederest
6 hours ago
We're entering an age where doing binary modification on live binaries is not a huge deal. Everything is now open "source"?
6 hours ago
We're entering an age where doing binary modification on live binaries is not a huge deal. Everything is now open "source"?
What is it called when there's a process that's available to individuals but is long and onerous and cannot be shared among them? Saying the binaries are open source now means that the work of reverse engineering will be repeated exactly in proportion to the number of times it's modified. I would argue on a large scale this is still effectively closed source.
As soon as you can share binary patches (highly illegal of course) we're off to the races.
Binary patches aren’t illegal right? How would they be?
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More like mildly illegal. Seems on par with torrents to me.
I would move the quotes to "open" since the issue of licensing is still left. Although LLM providers have shown that they don't care about copyright so it should go both ways.
Quotes for all of it, it's a closed binary that is transparently user modifiable these days I guess, so "open" "source".