I have made this submission to the community discussion on the Digital Public Goods Alliance (DPGA)‘s Proposal: Defining Mandatory Components for AI Systems Seeking Digital Public Good (DPG) Recognition
Four Freedoms of Free Software For those of you new to the Free & Open Source Software (FOSS) party, these creative works are deliberately made available by their authors under licenses that protect the “four essential freedoms” of free (as in freedom, not as in beer) software, allowing users to: These four freedoms are implemented…
Forking is the latest hobby horse of the Open Source Initiative (OSI), so let’s flog this dead horse too: “An Open Source AI machine is one that the people can meaningfully fork without having to ask for permission.” — Open Source Initiative (OSI) “Indeed! Pity many don’t grasp this very basic concept.” — OSI Board…
In light of how often medical applications are used by the Open Source Initiative (OSI) as an excuse for enabling vendors to conceal the source (i.e., data) under their flawed Open Source AI Definition (OSAID), I’ve updated the So, you want to write about the OSI’s Open Source AI Definition (OSAID)… article with the following…