41 sats \ 9 replies \ @nullama 27 Aug 2023 \ on: Daily discussion thread
Open source is really the key to freedom.
I'm surprised to see so many people with heaps of subscriptions for software services.
Things like Microsoft Office, Adobe, etc, all paid monthly subscriptions.
Insanity!
Individuals (and many businesses) want the reassurance of a centralised and across-the-board compatible software model.
Multiple open-source programs / services create a feeling of risk for traditional business managers regardless of the reality. Concerns about integration etc are significant in medium-size business which may not have an IT dept.
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Sure, you can have support on top of an open standard. That's the best of both worlds.
Closed sourced formats are quite dangerous for the long term.
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I know and agreed. But centralised systems are reassuring to the inexperienced.
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You can have a centralized system with open source as well.
LibreOffice has professional support for example: https://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/professional-support/
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Very excited for AI to break down gated software. We'll have free and open access to any of these tools, probably all be baked into one simple AI interface.
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We could end up with closed sourced AI, or basically AI as a closed service, just like we have MS Office as a service.
Just because it's AI it doesn't mean it is open. We need people working on this, making it free and available, like StableDiffusion and things like gpt4all
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my hope is that influences like bitcoin will help push the world towards open APIs
tech is deflationary after all
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I don't know. We could end up either way.
This basically already happened, the web 1.0 was all open, but greed changed it all and now it's all centralized and closed.
We have the chance to keep AI apps free, as in libre, but based on the recent past, I think people will prefer to use a "free" service than to learn how to do it themselves.
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