@ylecun: Soooo, releasing Linux was dumping? Apache, MySQL, PHP? HTTP, TCP/IP, OpenSSL, OpenSSH? Libjpeg, VLC? The open source s…
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Yann LeCun defends open source by listing major projects like Linux, Apache, MySQL, and PyTorch, questioning the idea that releasing them was 'dumping'.
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@hosseeb @deanwball Soooo, releasing Linux was dumping? Apache, MySQL, PHP? HTTP, TCP/IP, OpenSSL, OpenSSH? Libjpeg, VLC? The open source software stack of the mobile communication network? Signal? PyTorch? Llama?
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