AI and OSS

Posted Sep 3, 2025 14:38 UTC (Wed) by pizza (subscriber, #46)
In reply to: AI and OSS by KernelNomad
Parent article: Report: the state of commercial open source

> We have defined Commercial Open Source in a liberal way in that report: “Open Source” is defined broadly. It covers companies whose products rely on publicly accessible source code—whether under an OSI-approved license, open weights in AI, or products with a meaningful open-source component alongside proprietary features.

That's all fine and dandy, but most folks see "commercial open source companies" and think it refers to the *creators* of said open source software, not *users* of it.

Because your definition could encompass nearly the entire software industry -- oh, and most of the (computer) hardware industry... and everything else that employs computers in any way.

AI and OSS

Posted Sep 3, 2025 14:49 UTC (Wed) by Wol (subscriber, #4433) [Link]

> and everything else that employs computers in any way.

My employer (a supermarket) would fit that definition. We use a fair bit. Look at the article on curl - that would bring in the car industry (and my VW has a option to display all the licences - GPL, BSD, whatever - used by the car, as I believe does my wife's Vauxhall (part of Peugeot)).

Probably pretty much any and every business, given that Windows includes quite a big chunk of FLOSS ...

Cheers,
Wol