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'Open Weights' Revisionism (Using Microsoft to Rewrite Free Software History) and Two Free Programs of Interest

Posted by Roy Schestowitz on Jun 09, 2023

Toward an Open Weights Definition [Ed: What a joke. She pretends to be some historian for Free software but outsources everything to proprietary software controlled by Microsoft. This will be corporate revisionism; moreover, there's employment history with Microsoft. All tainted. As an associate put it: "The employment history with Microsoft is a dead give away that she will only spew lies and disinformation"]

Today, OSS Capital is starting a project to collect community input on a definition of Open Weights. We have published our initial effort at https://github.com/Open-Weights/Definition. Here is the TLDR: It is critical for the industry to develop and standardize on "Open Weights" licensing frameworks. These frameworks should align closely with the Four Freedoms...

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