On 5/3/26 12:27 PM, Evan Leibovitch via Talk wrote:
On Tue, Apr 28, 2026 at 3:02 PM James Knott via Talk <talk@lists.gtalug.org> wrote:
On 4/28/26 12:25, Jon Thiele via Talk wrote:
As for Musk, he is truly one of the great entrepreneurs in our lifetime. His companies, Tesla, Boring, X, xAI, SpaceX, Starlink and Neuralink are revolutionary.
Except he bought them, not created. They were all someone else's idea.
That makes him by far the world's best hype man, which has a value all its own. A great idea remains in the shadows without decent marketing.
In any case, whether you love Elon, hate him or (like me) have moments of both, open source fans should be cheering him on in his current lawsuit with OpenAI. In part his goals are to revert the ChatGPT creator to its nonprofit roots; society and especially champions of openness and transparency will win if he succeeds.
Sadly the issue with OpenAI shifting from a "not for profit" to a "for profit" has nothing to do with openness or transparency or lack of both. Forcing OpenAI to go back to a not for profit will mean that they cannot get money from selling stocks to fund its expansion. This is more about tripping a competitor than any desire to make anything at OpenAI "open". -- Alvin Starr || land: (905)513-7688 Netvel Inc. || Cell: (416)806-0133 alvin@netvel.net ||