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		jayparth on July 20, 2020 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: OpenAI should now change their name to ClosedAI Hugging Face is also a for-profit startup. I wonder how betrayed this guy is going to feel betrayed when they launch a paid service...

manquer on July 20, 2020 [–]

Open doesn’t mean free. Plenty of for profit open source companies are making good money . Redis gitlab, elastic, sentry, docker, mongo Etc

Open source has very specific definitions OSI has a good process to determine whether a project meets them. I doubt openAI can meet them

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