@AkinoNya: Honestly, I really hate that kind of source-available software that goes around promoting itself as open source, but th…
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The author criticizes source-available software that markets itself as open source while restricting commercial use, modification, and distribution, noting that in the AI era such restrictions can be bypassed by one-click model rewrites of the code.
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